Gulliver's Travels. Part ii. Chap. vii. Voyage to Brobdingnag.
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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
Gulliver's Travels. Part iii. Chap. v. Voyage to Laputa.
It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first.
Tale of a Tub. Dedication.
Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.[291:1]
Tale of a Tub. Preface.
Bread is the staff of life.[291:2]
Tale of a Tub. Preface.