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- When parties in a state are violent, he offered a wonderful contrivance to reconcile them.Part 3 — A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, .... (55% in)
- These false informations, which I afterwards came to the knowledge of by an accident not proper to mention, made the treasurer show his lady for some time an ill countenance, and me a worse; and although he was at last undeceived and reconciled to her, yet I lost all credit with him, and found my interest decline very fast with the emperor himself, who was, indeed, too much governed by that favourite.Part 1 — A Voyage to Lilliput (78% in)
- However, when she had a while seen my behaviour, and how well I observed the signs her husband made, she was soon reconciled, and by degrees grew extremely tender of me.Part 2 — A Voyage to Brobdingnag (10% in)
- I was at first at a great loss for salt, but custom soon reconciled me to the want of it; and I am confident that the frequent use of salt among us is an effect of luxury, and was first introduced only as a provocative to drink, except where it is necessary for preserving flesh in long voyages, or in places remote from great markets; for we observe no animal to be fond of it but man, and as to myself, when I left this country, it was a great while before I could endure the taste of it...Part 4 — A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnms (16% in)
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