ENGLAND in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Gulliver's Travels 1 by Jonathan Swift
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1 There he called his wife, and showed me to her; but she screamed and ran back, as women in England do at the sight of a toad or a spider.
2 I have seen him do the summerset several times together, upon a trencher fixed on a rope which is no thicker than a common packthread in England.
3 I gave him two purses of two hundreds sprugs each, and promised, when we arrived in England, to make him a present of a cow and a sheep big with young.
4 The short time I continued in England, I made a considerable profit by showing my cattle to many persons of quality and others: and before I began my second voyage, I sold them for six hundred pounds.
5 I likewise delivered up my watch, which the emperor was very curious to see, and commanded two of his tallest yeomen of the guards to bear it on a pole upon their shoulders, as draymen in England do a barrel of ale.
6 He considered awhile, with the caution of one who endeavours to lay hold on a small dangerous animal in such a manner that it shall not be able either to scratch or bite him, as I myself have sometimes done with a weasel in England.
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