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great satisfaction (pleasure)
- 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.Introductory Sections (23% in)
- Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.Part 1 — A Voyage to Lilliput (57% in)
- ] 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.Part 1 — A Voyage to Lilliput (62% in)
- 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.Part 1 — A Voyage to Lilliput (87% in)
- 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.Part 3 — A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, .... (66% in)
- 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.Part 3 — A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, .... (98% in)
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