1 The first I shall mention, relates to informers.
2 The author relates several particulars of the Yahoos.
3 My journey was without any accident or adventure worth relating.
4 The manner in which he leaves the country very particularly related.
5 The king inquires into the state of England, which the author relates to him.
6 And, upon this occasion, I hope the reader will pardon my relating an odd adventure.
7 Their notions relating to the duties of parents and children differ extremely from ours.
8 There was a great lord at court, nearly related to the king, and for that reason alone used with respect.
9 To say the truth, I had conceived a few scruples with relation to the distributive justice of princes upon those occasions.
10 I did very much wonder, in all this time, not to have heard of any express relating to me from our emperor to the court of Blefuscu.
11 I gave him a very short relation of my voyage; of the conspiracy against me by my own men; of the country where they set me on shore, and of my five years residence there.
12 In relating these and the following laws, I would only be understood to mean the original institutions, and not the most scandalous corruptions, into which these people are fallen by the degenerate nature of man.
13 It would be tedious to trouble the reader with relating what vast numbers of illustrious persons were called up to gratify that insatiable desire I had to see the world in every period of antiquity placed before me.
14 He was by no means satisfied with the relation I gave him of the manner I came into his kingdom, but thought it a story concerted between Glumdalclitch and her father, who had taught me a set of words to make me sell at a better price.
15 Upon what I said in relation to our courts of justice, his majesty desired to be satisfied in several points: and this I was the better able to do, having been formerly almost ruined by a long suit in chancery, which was decreed for me with costs.
16 He entertained me with great kindness, observing me not to look wildly, or talk inconsistently: and, when we were left alone, desired I would give him a relation of my travels, and by what accident I came to be set adrift, in that monstrous wooden chest.
17 But by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wrung and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.
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