For my own part, I could not avoid reflecting how universally this Talent was spread of drawing Lectures in Morality, or indeed rather matter of Discontent and repining from the Quarrels we raise with Nature. And, I believe upon a strict Enquiry, those Quarrels might be shewn as ill-grounded among us, as they are among that People. I HAVE often seen the Militia of Lorbrulgrud drawn out to Exercise in a great Field near the City, of twenty Miles square. A Cavalier mounted on a large Steed might be about an hundred Foot high. I have seen this whole Body of Horse upon a Word of Command draw their Swords at once, and brandish them in the Air.
Imagination can figure nothing so grand, so surprising and so astonishing.
It looked as if ten thousand Flashes of Lightning were darting at the same time from every Quarter of the Sky. I WAS curious to know how this Prince, to whose Dominions there is no Access from any other Country, came to think of Armies, or to teach his People the Practice of military Discipline. But I was soon informed, both by Conversation, and Reading their Histories. Next Chapter HTML files generated by Dennis G. Jerz and Christopher Douglas for the University of Toronto English Library, under the direction of Professor Ian Lancashire.