All 6 Uses of
gratification
in
Gulliver's Travels
- And if any traveller hath a curiosity to see the whole work at large, as it came from the hands of the author, I will be ready to gratify him.†
Chpt Intr. *gratify = give pleasure or satisfaction
- Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.†
Chpt 1
- Although I intend to leave the description of this empire to a particular treatise, yet, in the mean time, I am content to gratify the curious reader with some general ideas.†
Chpt 1
- It was a custom introduced by this prince and his ministry (very different, as I have been assured, from the practice of former times,) that after the court had decreed any cruel execution, either to gratify the monarch's resentment, or the malice of a favourite, the emperor always made a speech to his whole council, expressing his great lenity and tenderness, as qualities known and confessed by all the world.†
Chpt 1
- It would be tedious to trouble the reader with relating what vast numbers of illustrious persons were called up to gratify that insatiable desire I had to see the world in every period of antiquity placed before me.†
Chpt 3
- However, for the reasons I had offered, but chiefly to gratify the king of Luggnagg by an uncommon mark of his favour, he would comply with the singularity of my humour; but the affair must be managed with dexterity, and his officers should be commanded to let me pass, as it were by forgetfulness.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
great satisfaction (pleasure)