Voyage to Brobdingnag. 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. 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.
Bread is the staff of life.
Books, the children of the brain. As boys do sparrows, with flinging salt upon their tails. He made it a part of his religion never to say grace to his meat. 8 Brother Protestants. The two noblest things, which are sweetness and light.