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1  Their ideas are perpetually conversant in lines and figures.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II.
2  But it was decreed by fortune, my perpetual enemy, that so great a felicity should not fall to my share.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VII.
3  I slept some hours, but perpetually disturbed with dreams of the place I had left, and the dangers I had escaped.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VIII.
4  The reader will easily believe, that from what I had hear and seen, my keen appetite for perpetuity of life was much abated.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER X.
5  I should then see the discovery of the longitude, the perpetual motion, the universal medicine, and many other great inventions, brought to the utmost perfection.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER X.
6  They are so perpetually alarmed with the apprehensions of these, and the like impending dangers, that they can neither sleep quietly in their beds, nor have any relish for the common pleasures and amusements of life.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II.
7  That the question therefore was not, whether a man would choose to be always in the prime of youth, attended with prosperity and health; but how he would pass a perpetual life under all the usual disadvantages which old age brings along with it.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER X.
8  For although, since my unfortunate exile from the Houyhnhnm country, I had compelled myself to tolerate the sight of Yahoos, and to converse with Don Pedro de Mendez, yet my memory and imagination were perpetually filled with the virtues and ideas of those exalted Houyhnhnms.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER XI.
9  But what I chiefly admired, and thought altogether unaccountable, was the strong disposition I observed in them towards news and politics, perpetually inquiring into public affairs, giving their judgments in matters of state, and passionately disputing every inch of a party opinion.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II.
10  There is indeed a perpetual commerce between this kingdom and the great empire of Japan; and it is very probable, that the Japanese authors may have given some account of the struldbrugs; but my stay in Japan was so short, and I was so entirely a stranger to the language, that I was not qualified to make any inquiries.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER XI.
11  Their houses are very ill built, the walls bevil, without one right angle in any apartment; and this defect arises from the contempt they bear to practical geometry, which they despise as vulgar and mechanic; those instructions they give being too refined for the intellects of their workmen, which occasions perpetual mistakes.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II.
12  Here I discovered the roguery and ignorance of those who pretend to write anecdotes, or secret history; who send so many kings to their graves with a cup of poison; will repeat the discourse between a prince and chief minister, where no witness was by; unlock the thoughts and cabinets of ambassadors and secretaries of state; and have the perpetual misfortune to be mistaken.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VIII.