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“Travels into several remote nations of the word” (Publication, 1726)

Year

1726

Text

Swift, Jonathan. Travels into several remote nations of the word. By Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain of several ships. Pt. 1-4. (London : Benj. Motte, 1726). (Library of English literature ; 20866). = Gulliver's travels. [Enthält Eintragungen über China].
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/829/829-h/829-h.htm. (SwiJ1)

Type

Publication

Contributors (1)

Swift, Jonathan  (Dublin 1667-1745 Dublin) : Schriftsteller

Subjects

Literature : Occident : Ireland : Prose

Chronology Entries (1)

# Year Text Linked Data
1 1726 Swift, Jonathan. Travels into several remote nations of the word. = Gulliver's travels [ID D27119].
Er schreibt :
Pt. I : A voyage to Lilliput.
Chap. III : "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. They were after the fashion of the kingdom, partly resembling the Persian, and partly the Chinese, and are a very grave and decent habit."
Chap. VI : "I shall say but little at present of their learning, which, for many ages, has flourished in all its branches among them: but their manner of writing is very peculiar, being neither from the left to the right, like the Europeans, nor from the right to the left, like the Arabians, nor from up to down, like the Chinese, but aslant, from one corner of the paper to the other, like ladies in England."
Chap. VII : "They have had the art of printing, as well as the Chinese, time out of mind: but their libraries are not very large; for that of the king, which is reckoned the largest, does not amount to above a thousand volumes, placed in a gallery of twelve hundred feet long, whence I had liberty to borrow what books I pleased."
Pt. 4 : A voyage to the country of the Houyhnhnms.
Chap. I : "The two creatures stood silent while I spoke, seeming to listen with great attention, and when I had ended, they neighed frequently towards each other, as if they were engaged in serious conversation. I plainly observed that their language expressed the passions very well, and the words might, with little pains, be resolved into an alphabet more easily than the Chinese."

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# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 2007- Worldcat/OCLC Web / WC