. Tales of fantasy . againstme, with their guards aboutthem. Flinmap, the lordhigh treasurer, attendedthere likewise with his whitestaff; and I observed heoften looked on me witha sour countenance, which I would not seem toregard, but ate more than usual in honor of my dearcountry, as well as to fill the court with have private reasons to believe, that this visit fromhis majesty gave Flimnap an opportunity of doing meill offices to his Majesty. That minister had alwaysbeen my secret enemy, though he outwardly caressedme more than was usual to the moroseness of hisnature. He repres
. Tales of fantasy . againstme, with their guards aboutthem. Flinmap, the lordhigh treasurer, attendedthere likewise with his whitestaff; and I observed heoften looked on me witha sour countenance, which I would not seem toregard, but ate more than usual in honor of my dearcountry, as well as to fill the court with have private reasons to believe, that this visit fromhis majesty gave Flimnap an opportunity of doing meill offices to his Majesty. That minister had alwaysbeen my secret enemy, though he outwardly caressedme more than was usual to the moroseness of hisnature. He represented to the emperor the low con-dition of the treasury; that he was forced to take upmoney at a great discount; that exchequer bills wouldnot circulate under nine per cent, below par; that Ihad cost his majesty above a million and a half ofsprugs (their greatest gold coin, about the bigness of aspangle); and, upon the whole, that it would be advis-able in the emperor to take the first fair occasion ofdismissing Tm:v CAMK ACCORDINGLY, AND I THEM INOF STATE, UPON MY TABLE. GULLIVER IN BROBDINGNAG BY JONATHAN SWIFT,
Size: 1276px × 1958px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookidtalesoffanta, bookyear1902
