1 Having a desire to see those ancients who were most renowned for wit and learning, I set apart one day on purpose.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 3: CHAPTER VIII. 2 The queen, giving great allowance for my defectiveness in speaking, was, however, surprised at so much wit and good sense in so diminutive an animal.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER III. 3 But the Houyhnhnms, who live under the government of reason, are no more proud of the good qualities they possess, than I should be for not wanting a leg or an arm; which no man in his wits would boast of, although he must be miserable without them.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 4: CHAPTER XII. 4 After that period, they are held incapable of any employment of trust or profit; they cannot purchase lands, or take leases; neither are they allowed to be witnesses in any cause, either civil or criminal, not even for the decision of meers and bounds.
Gulliver's Travels(V2) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 3: CHAPTER X. 5 And yet I have seen the moral of my own behaviour very frequent in England since my return; where a little contemptible varlet, without the least title to birth, person, wit, or common sense, shall presume to look with importance, and put himself upon a foot with the greatest persons of the kingdom.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER V. 6 I remember, before the dwarf left the queen, he followed us one day into those gardens, and my nurse having set me down, he and I being close together, near some dwarf apple trees, I must needs show my wit, by a silly allusion between him and the trees, which happens to hold in their language as it does in ours.
Gulliver's Travels(V1) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 2: CHAPTER V. 7 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(V2) By Jonathan SwiftGet Context In PART 3: CHAPTER VIII.