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Quotes from Gulliver's Travels 1 by Jonathan Swift
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1 This linnet, as near as I can remember, seemed to be somewhat larger than an English swan.
2 The word imports what the Latins call nanunculus, the Italians homunceletino, and the English mannikin.
3 A fancy came into my head, that I would entertain the king and queen with an English tune upon this instrument.
4 The vessel was an English merchantman, returning from Japan by the North and South seas; the captain, Mr. John Biddel, of Deptford, a very civil man, and an excellent sailor.
5 The queen likewise ordered the thinnest silks that could be gotten, to make me clothes, not much thicker than an English blanket, very cumbersome till I was accustomed to them.
6 This made me reflect upon the fair skins of our English ladies, who appear so beautiful to us, only because they are of our own size, and their defects not to be seen but through a magnifying glass; where we find by experiment that the smoothest and whitest skins look rough, and coarse, and ill-coloured.
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