WAR in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Gulliver's Travels 1 by Jonathan Swift
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1 The causes of war among the princes of Europe.
2 Which two mighty powers have, as I was going to tell you, been engaged in a most obstinate war for six-and-thirty moons past.
3 He often builds his largest men of war, whereof some are nine feet long, in the woods where the timber grows, and has them carried on these engines three or four hundred yards to the sea.
4 But I could not see how this could be done in their country, where the smallest wherry was equal to a first-rate man of war among us; and such a boat as I could manage would never live in any of their rivers.
5 Power, government, war, law, punishment, and a thousand other things, had no terms wherein that language could express them, which made the difficulty almost insuperable, to give my master any conception of what I meant.
6 The seamen threw me the end of the cord, which I fastened to a hole in the fore-part of the boat, and the other end to a man of war; but I found all my labour to little purpose; for, being out of my depth, I was not able to work.
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