“ Besides, I now considered myself as bound by the laws of hospitality, to a people who had treated me with so much expense and magnificence. ”
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (1726). copy citation
| Author | Jonathan Swift |
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| Source | Gulliver's Travels |
| Topic | care hospitality |
| Date | 1726 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/829/829-h/829-h.htm |
Context
“But the remembrance of what I had felt, which probably might not be the worst they could do, and the promise of honour I made them—for so I interpreted my submissive behaviour—soon drove out these imaginations. Besides, I now considered myself as bound by the laws of hospitality, to a people who had treated me with so much expense and magnificence. However, in my thoughts I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals, who durst venture to mount and walk upon my body, while one of my hands was at liberty, without trembling at the very sight of so prodigious a creature as I must appear to them.”
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