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Gulliners Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World; With a Sketh of His Life
Gulliners Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World With a Sketh of His Life Author:Jonathan Swift General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1819 Original Publisher: J. Walker Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can selec... more »t from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. The Emperor of Lilliput, attended by several of the nobility, comes to see the Author in his cora- fcnement. The Emperor's person and habit described. Learned men appointed to teach the Author their language. He gaine favour by his mild, disposition. His pockets are searcfted, and his sword and pistols taken from him. When I found myself cm my feet, I looked about me, and must confess I never beheld a more entertaining prospect. The country around appeared like a continued garden, and the enclosed fields, which were generally forty feet square, resembled so many beds of flowers. These fields were intermingled with woods of half a stang, and the tallest trees, as 1 could jndge, appeared to be seven feet high. I viewed the town on my left hand, which looked like the painted scene of a city in a theatre. I had been for some hours extremely pressed by the necessities of nature ; which was no wonder, it being almost two days since I had last disburdened myself. I was under great difficulties between urgency and shame. The best expedient I could think ont, was to creep into my house, which I accordingly did; and shutting the gate after me, I went as far as the length of my chain would suffer, and discharged my body of that uneasy load. But this was the only time I was ever gnilty of so uncleanly an action; for which I caunot but hop the candid reader will give some allowance, after he has maturely and impartially cousidered my case, and A stang is a pole or perch; sixteen feet and a. half. -- Original, t The anthor is singular in the use of this phrase, as think...« less