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...things that surprise and astonish : strange, so many hopeful princes, and so many shameful kings ! If they happen to die young, they would have been...they are often prodigies indeed, but of another sort 1 Harley. [S.] Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently...

...speak things that surprise and astonish: strange, so many hopeful princes, and so many shameful kings! If they happen to die young, they would have been...good ministry: for which reason all courts are so overrun of politics. Silenus, the foster-father of Bacchus, is always carried by an ass, and has horns...

...frivolous, to his definition of politics as corruption: Politicks are nothing but corruptions, and are consequently of no use to a good king, or a good ministry: for which reason all courts are so full of politicks.41 grieve to be surpassed and rejoice to surpass others."42 It's important to note that Gulliver's...