Great Books of the Western World, 36. köideRobert Maynard Hutchins Encyclopædia Britannica, 1952 |
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... reason , and to be wholly governed by it . Neither is reason among them a point problematical as with us , where men can argue with plausibility on both sides of the question ; but strikes you with immediate conviction ; as it must ...
... reason , and to be wholly governed by it . Neither is reason among them a point problematical as with us , where men can argue with plausibility on both sides of the question ; but strikes you with immediate conviction ; as it must ...
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... reason , I shall not repeat what they said : only I may be allowed to observe , that his honour , to my great admiration , appeared to understand the nature of Yahoos much better than my self . He went through all our vices and follies ...
... reason , I shall not repeat what they said : only I may be allowed to observe , that his honour , to my great admiration , appeared to understand the nature of Yahoos much better than my self . He went through all our vices and follies ...
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... reason or nature , or a thing ever heard of before among them . The assembly did therefore exhort him , either to employ me like the rest of my species , or command me to swim back to the place from whence I came : that , the first of ...
... reason or nature , or a thing ever heard of before among them . The assembly did therefore exhort him , either to employ me like the rest of my species , or command me to swim back to the place from whence I came : that , the first of ...
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The Emperor of Lilliput attended by several of the nobility come | 9 |
The author diverts the emperor and his nobility of both sexes in a very | 15 |
The author by an extraordinary stratagem prevents an invasion A high | 23 |
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