All 4 Uses of
doctrine
in
Gulliver's Travels
- During the course of these troubles, the emperors of Blefusca did frequently expostulate by their ambassadors, accusing us of making a schism in religion, by offending against a fundamental doctrine of our great prophet Lustrog, in the fifty-fourth chapter of the Blundecral (which is their Alcoran).†
Chpt 1
- The learned among them confess the absurdity of this doctrine; but the practice still continues, in compliance to the vulgar.†
Chpt 1 *
- This great philosopher freely acknowledged his own mistakes in natural philosophy, because he proceeded in many things upon conjecture, as all men must do; and he found that Gassendi, who had made the doctrine of Epicurus as palatable as he could, and the vortices of Descartes, were equally to be exploded.†
Chpt 3
- I have often since reflected, what destruction such doctrine would make in the libraries of Europe; and how many paths of fame would be then shut up in the learned world.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(doctrine) a belief (or system of beliefs or principles) accepted as authoritative by some group