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1 The learning of this people is very defective, consisting only in morality, history, poetry, and mathematics, wherein they must be allowed to excel.
Gulliver's Travels 1By Jonathan Swift ContextHighlight In PART 2: CHAPTER VII.
2 In poetry, they must be allowed to excel all other mortals; wherein the justness of their similes, and the minuteness as well as exactness of their descriptions, are indeed inimitable.
Gulliver's Travels 2By Jonathan Swift ContextHighlight In PART 4: CHAPTER IX.
3 Every one knew how laborious the usual method is of attaining to arts and sciences; whereas, by his contrivance, the most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws, mathematics, and theology, without the least assistance from genius or study.
Gulliver's Travels 2By Jonathan Swift ContextHighlight In PART 3: CHAPTER V.
4 Their subjects are, generally on friendship and benevolence, on order and economy; sometimes upon the visible operations of nature, or ancient traditions; upon the bounds and limits of virtue; upon the unerring rules of reason, or upon some determinations to be taken at the next great assembly: and often upon the various excellences of poetry.
Gulliver's Travels 2By Jonathan Swift ContextHighlight In PART 4: CHAPTER X.