Travels into several remote nations of the world : in 4 pt. : Vol. II. / by Lemuel Gulliver. London. 1726
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PDF 1 Part III. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdribb, and Japan.
PDF 1 Chap. I. The Author sets out his third Voyage; is taken by Pirates: The Malice of a Dutchman. His Arrival at an Island. He is received into Laputa.
PDF 15 Chap. II. The Humours and Disposition of the Laputians described. An Account of their Learning. Of the King and his Court. The Author's Reception there. The Inhabitants subject to Fears and Disquietitudes. An Account of the Women.
PDF 35 Chap. III. A Phænomenon solved by modern Philosophy and Astronomy. The Laputians great Improvements in the latter. The King's Method of suppressing Insurrections.
PDF 48 Chap. IV. The Author leaves Laputa, is conveyed to Balnibarbi, arrives at the Metropolis. A Description of the Metropolis, and the Country adjoining. The Author hospitably received by a great Lord. His Conversation with that Lord.
PDF 62 Chap. V. The Author permitted to see the grand Academy of Lagado. The Academy largely described. The Arts wherein the Professors employ themselves.
PDF 80 Chap. VI. A farther Account of the Academy. The Author proposes some Improvements, which are honourably received.
PDF 94 Chap. VII. The Author leaves Lagado, arrives at Maldonada. No Ship ready. He takes a short Voyage to Glubbdubdribb. His Reception by the Governor.
PDF 104 Chap. VIII. A farther Account of Glubbdubdribb. Antient and Modern History corrected.
PDF 118 Chap. IX. The Author's Return to Maldonada, sails to the Kingdom of Luggnagg. The Author confined. He is sent for to Court. The Manner of his Admittance. The King's great Lenity to his Subjects.
PDF 127 Chap. X. The Luggnaggians commended. A particular Description of the Struldbruggs, with many Conversations between the Author and some eminent Persons upon that Subject.
PDF 147 Chap. XI. The Author leaves Luggnagg, and sails to Japan. From thence he returns in a Dutch Ship to Amsterdam, and from Amsterdam to England.
PDF Part IV. A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms.
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PDF [155] Chap. I. The Author sets out as Captain of a Ship. His Men conspire against him, confine him a long time to his Cabbin, set him on Shore in an unknown Land. He travels up in the Country. The Yahoos a strange Sort of Animal described. The Author meets two Houyhnhnms.
PDF 172 Chap. II. The Author conducted by a Houyhnhnm to his House. The House described. The Author's Reception. The Food of the Houyhnhnms. The Author in distress for want of Meat, is at last relieved. His manner of feeding in this Country.
PDF 187 Chap. III. The Author studious to learn the Language, the Houyhnhnm his Master assists in teaching him. The Language described. Several Houyhnhnms of Quality come out of Curiosity to see the Author. He gives his Master a short Account of his Voyage.
PDF 201 Chap. IV. The Houyhnhnms Notion of Truth and Falshood. The Author's Discourse disapproved by his Master. The Author gives a more particular Account of himself, and the Accidents of his Voyage.
PDF 214 Chap. V. The Author at his Master's Command informs him of the State of England. The Causes of War among the Princes of Europe. The Author begins to explain the English Constitution.
PDF 234 Chap. VI. A Continuation of the State of England; so well governed by a Queen as to need no first Minister. The Character of such an one in some European Courts.
PDF 252 Chap. VII. The Author's great Love of his Native Country. His Master's Observations upon the Constitution and Administration of England, as described by the Author, with parallel Cases and Comparisons. His Master's Observations upon Human Nature.
PDF 271 Chap. VIII. The Author relates several Particulars of the Yahoos. The great Virtues of the Houyhnhnms. The Education and Exercises of their Youth. Their general Assembly.
PDF 286 Chap. IX. A grand Debate at the General Assembly of the Houyhnhnms, and how it was determined. The Learning of the Houyhnhnms. Their Buildings. Their manner of Burials. The Defectiveness of their Language.
PDF 299 Chap. X. The Author's Oeconomy and happy Life among the Houyhnhnms. His great Improvement in Virtue, by conversing with them. Their Conversations. The Author has notice given him by his Master that he must depart from the Country. He falls into a Swoon for Grief, but submits. He contrives and finishes a Canoo, by the help of a Fellow-Servant, and puts to Sea at a venture.
PDF 318 Chap. XI. The Author's dangerous Voyage. He arrives at New-Holland, hoping to settle there. Is wounded with an Arrow by one of the Natives. Is seized and carried by force into a Portugueze Ship. The great Civilities of the Captain. The Author arrives at England.
PDF 338 Chap. XII. The Author's Veracity. His Design in publishing this Work. His Censure of those Travellers who swerve from the Truth. The Author clears himself from any sinister Ends in writing. An Objection answered. The Methos of planting Colonies. His Native Country commended. The Right of the Crown to those Countries described by the Author is justified. The Difficulty of conquering them. The Author takes his last leave of the Reader: proposeth his manner of living for the future, gives good Advice, ...
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