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19 - Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift · Classic Adventure Books - Daily

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  Speaker 4: Chapter three, a phenomenon solved by modern philosophy and astronomy
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  Speaker 4: that are Putian's great improvements in the latter the King's
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  Speaker 4: method of suppressing insurrections. I desire to leave this Prince
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  Speaker 4: to see the curiosities of the island, which he was
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  Speaker 4: graciously pleased to grant, and ordered my tutor to attend me.
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  Speaker 4: I chiefly wanted to know to what cause, in art
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  Speaker 4: or in nature it owed its several motions, whereof I
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  Speaker 4: will now give a philosophical account to the reader. The
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  Speaker 4: flying off floating island is exactly circular, its diameters seven thousand,
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  Speaker 4: eight hundred and thirty seven yards or about four miles
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  Speaker 4: and a half, and consequently contains ten thousand acres. It
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  Speaker 4: is three hundred yards thick. The bottom or under surface,
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  Speaker 4: which appears to those who view it below, is one
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  Speaker 4: even regular plate of adamant shooting up to the height
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  Speaker 4: of about two hundred yards. Above it lie the several
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  Speaker 4: minerals in their usual order, and over all is a
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  Speaker 4: coat of rich mold ten or twelve feet deep. The
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  Speaker 4: declivity of the upper surface from the circumference to the
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  Speaker 4: center is the natural cause by all the dews and
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  Speaker 4: rains which fall upon the island are conveyed in small
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  Speaker 4: rivulets towards the middle, where they are emptied into four
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  Speaker 4: large basins, each of about half a mile in circuit
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  Speaker 4: and two hundred yards distant from the center. From these basins,
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  Speaker 4: the water is continually exhaled by the sun in the daytime,
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  Speaker 4: which effectually prevents their overflowing. Besides, as it is in
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  Speaker 4: the power of the monarch to raise the island above
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  Speaker 4: the rain of clouds and vapors, he can prevent the
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  Speaker 4: falling of dews and rain whenever he pleases. For the
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  Speaker 4: highest clouds cannot rise above two miles, as naturalists agree,
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  Speaker 4: at least they were never known to do so in
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  Speaker 4: that country. At the center of the island. There is
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  Speaker 4: a chasm about fifty yards in diameter, whence the astronomers
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  Speaker 4: descend into a large dome, which is thereof called Flandona Gagnol,
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  Speaker 4: or the astronomer's cave, situated at the depth of one
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  Speaker 4: hundred yards. Beneath the upper surface of the adamant. In
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  Speaker 4: this cave are twenty lamps continually burning, which, from the
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  Speaker 4: reflection of the adamant, cast a strong light into every part.
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  Speaker 4: The place is stored with great variety of sextants, quadrants, telescopes, astrolabs,
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  Speaker 4: and other astronomical instruments. But the greatest curiosity upon which
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  Speaker 4: the fate of the island depends is a loadstone of
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  Speaker 4: a prodigious size in shape resembling a weaver's shuttle. It
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  Speaker 4: is in length six yards and in the thickest part
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  Speaker 4: at least three yards over. This magnet is sustained by
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  Speaker 4: a very strong axle of adamant passing through its middle,
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  Speaker 4: upon which it plays and is poised so exactly that
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  Speaker 4: the weakest hand can turn it. It is hooped round
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  Speaker 4: with a hollow cylinder of adamant four feet yards in diameter,
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  Speaker 4: placed horizontally and supported by eight adamantin feet each six
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  Speaker 4: yards high. In the middle of the concave side, there
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  Speaker 4: is a groove twelve inches deep in which the extremities
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  Speaker 4: of the axle are lodged and turned around as there
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  Speaker 4: is occasion. The stone cannot be removed from its place
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  Speaker 4: by any force, because the hoop and its feet are
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  Speaker 4: one continued peace with that body of adamant which constitutes
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  Speaker 4: the bottom of the island. By means of this load stone,
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  Speaker 4: the island is made to rise and fall, and move
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  Speaker 4: from one place to another. For with respect to that
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  Speaker 4: part of the earth over which the monarch presides, the
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  Speaker 4: stone is endured at one side of its side with
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  Speaker 4: an attractive power, and at the other with a repulsive
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  Speaker 4: upon place in the magneturect with its attracting end towards
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  Speaker 4: the earth, the island descends. But when the repelling extremity
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  Speaker 4: points downwards, the island bounds directly upwards. When the position
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  Speaker 4: the stone is oblique, the motion of the island is too,
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  Speaker 4: for in this magnet the forces always act in lines
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  Speaker 4: parallel to its direction. By this oblique motion, the island
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  Speaker 4: is conveyed to different parts of the Monarch's dominions, to
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  Speaker 4: explain the manner of its progress. Let A B represent
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  Speaker 4: a line drawn across the dominions of Banna Barbie. Let
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  Speaker 4: the line C D represent the loadstone, of which D
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  Speaker 4: be the repelling end and C the attracting end. The
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  Speaker 4: island being over capital C, let the stone be placed
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  Speaker 4: in position c D with its repelling end downwards. Then
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  Speaker 4: the island will be driven upwards obliquely towards capital D.
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  Speaker 4: When it has arrived at capital D, let the stone
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  Speaker 4: be turned upon its axil till the attracting end points
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  Speaker 4: towards E, and then the island will be carried obliquely
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  Speaker 4: towards E. Where if the stone being again turned upon
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  Speaker 4: its axle till it stands in the position e F
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  Speaker 4: with its repelling point downwards, the island will rise obliquely
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  Speaker 4: towards F. Where by directing the attracting end towards G,
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  Speaker 4: the island may be carried to G and from G
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  Speaker 4: to H. By turning the stone so as to make
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  Speaker 4: its repelling extremity to point directly downward, and thus by
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  Speaker 4: changing the situation of the stone, as often as there
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  Speaker 4: is occasion, the island is made to rise and fall
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  Speaker 4: by turns in an oblique direction, and by those alternate
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  Speaker 4: risings and fallings, the obliquity, being not considerable, is conveyed
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  Speaker 4: from one part of the dominions to the other. But
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  Speaker 4: it must be observed that this island cannot move beyond
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  Speaker 4: the extent of the dominions below, nor can it rise
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  Speaker 4: above the height of four miles, for which theos who
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  Speaker 4: have written large systems concerning the stone as sign the
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  Speaker 4: following reason that the magnetic virtue does not extend beyond
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  Speaker 4: the distance of four miles, and that the mineral which
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  Speaker 4: acts upon the stone in the bowels of the earth
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  Speaker 4: and in the sea about six leagues distance from the shore,
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  Speaker 4: is not diffused through the whole globe, but terminated with
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  Speaker 4: the limits of the king's dominions. And it was easy,
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  Speaker 4: from the great advantage of such a superior situation for
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  Speaker 4: a prince to bring under his obedience whatever country lay
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  Speaker 4: within the attraction of that magnet. When the stone is
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  Speaker 4: put parallel to the plane of the horizon, the island
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  Speaker 4: stands still, For in that case the extremities of it,
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  Speaker 4: being at equal distance from the earth, act with equal force,
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  Speaker 4: the one in drawing downwards, the other in pushing upwards,
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  Speaker 4: and consequently, no motion can ensue. This lodestone is under
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  Speaker 4: the care of certain astronomers, who, from time to time
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  Speaker 4: gimmit such positions as the monarch directs. They spend the
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  Speaker 4: greatest part of their lives in observing the celestial bodies,
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  Speaker 4: which they do by the assistance of glasses far excelling
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  Speaker 4: hours and goodness, for although their largest telescopes do not
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  Speaker 4: exceed three feet, they magnify much more than those of
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  Speaker 4: a hundred with us, and show the stars with greater clearness.
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  Speaker 4: This advantage has enabled them to extend their discoveries much
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  Speaker 4: further than our astronomers in Europe, for they have made
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  Speaker 4: a catalog of ten thousand fixed stars, whereas the largest
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  Speaker 4: of ours do not contain above one third part of
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  Speaker 4: that number. They have likewise discovered two lesser stars or satellites,
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  Speaker 4: which revolve about Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from
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  Speaker 4: the center of the primary planet exactly three of his diameters,
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  Speaker 4: and the outermost five. The former revolves in the space
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  Speaker 4: of ten hours and the latter in twenty one and
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  Speaker 4: a half, so that the squares the periodical times are
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  Speaker 4: very near in the same proportion with the cubes of
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  Speaker 4: their distance from the center of Mars, which evidently shows
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  Speaker 4: them to be governed by the same law of gravitation
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  Speaker 4: that influences the other heavenly bodies. They have observed ninety
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  Speaker 4: three different comets and settled their periods with great exactness.
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  Speaker 4: If this be true, and they affirm it with great confidence,
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  Speaker 4: it is much to be wished that their observations were
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  Speaker 4: made public, whereby the theory of comets, which at present
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  Speaker 4: is very lame and defective, might be brought to the
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  Speaker 4: same perfection with other arts of astronomy. The King would
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  Speaker 4: be the most absolute prince in the U s universe
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  Speaker 4: if he could but prevail on the ministry to join
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  Speaker 4: with him. But these, having their estates below on the continent,
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  Speaker 4: and considering that the office of a favorite has a
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  Speaker 4: very uncertain tenure, would never consent to the enslaving of
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  Speaker 4: their country. If any town should engage in rebellion or mutiny,
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  Speaker 4: fall into violent factions, or refuse to pay the usual tribute.
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  Speaker 4: The King as two methods of reducing them to obedience.
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  Speaker 4: The first and mildest course is by keeping the island
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  Speaker 4: hovering over such a town and the lands about it,
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  Speaker 4: whereby he can deprive them of the benefit of the
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  Speaker 4: sun and the rain, and consequently afflict the inhabitants with
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  Speaker 4: dearth and disease. And if the crime deserve it, they
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  Speaker 4: are at the same time pelted from above with great stones,
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  Speaker 4: against which they have no defense but by creeping into
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  Speaker 4: cellars or caves, while the roofs of their houses are
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  Speaker 4: beaten to pieces. But if they still continue obstinate, or
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  Speaker 4: offer to raise insurrections, he proceeds to the last remedy
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  Speaker 4: by letting the island drop directly upon their heads, which
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  Speaker 4: makes a universal destruction, both of houses and men. However,
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  Speaker 4: this is an extremity to which the Prince is seldom driven.
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  Speaker 4: Neither indeed is he willing to put it in execution,
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  Speaker 4: nor dare his ministers advise him to an action which,
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  Speaker 4: as it would render them odious to the people, so
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  Speaker 4: it would be a great damage to their own estates,
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  Speaker 4: which all lie below, for the island as the king's domain.
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  Speaker 4: But there is still, indeed a more weighty reason. Wings
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  Speaker 4: of this country have always been averse from executing so
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  Speaker 4: terrible an action, unless upon the utmost necessity. For if
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  Speaker 4: the town intended to be destroyed should have in it
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  Speaker 4: any took rocks, as it generally falls out in the
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  Speaker 4: largest cities, a situation probably chosen at first with a
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  Speaker 4: view to prevent such a catastrophe, or if it abound
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  Speaker 4: in high spires or pillars of stone, a sudden full
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  Speaker 4: might endanger the bottom or under surface of the island, which,
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  Speaker 4: although it counsist, as I have said, of one entire
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  Speaker 4: adamant two hundred yards thick, might happen to crack by
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  Speaker 4: two great a shock or burst by approaching two near
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  Speaker 4: the fires from the houses below, as the backs both
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  Speaker 4: of iron and stone, will often do in our chimneys.
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  Speaker 4: Of all this, the people are well appraised and understand
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  Speaker 4: how far to carry their obstinacy where their liberty or
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  Speaker 4: property is concerned. And the King, when he is highest
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  Speaker 4: provoked and most determined to press a city to rubbish,
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  Speaker 4: orders the island to descend with great gentleness, out of
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  Speaker 4: her pretense of tenderness to his people, but indeed for
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  Speaker 4: fear of break in the adamantine bottom, in which case
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  Speaker 4: it is the opinion of all the philosophers that the
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  Speaker 4: lodestone could no longer hold it up, and the whole
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  Speaker 4: mass would fall to the ground by a fundamental lore
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  Speaker 4: of this realm. Neither the King nor either of his
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  Speaker 4: two eldest sons are permitted to leave the island, nor
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