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The Works of the Rev. Johnathan Swift, D. D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Vol. 9 of 24: Arranged by Thomas Sheridan, A. M. with Notes, Historical and Critical (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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His Majesty sent for Three great Scholars who were then in their weekly waiting (according to the custom in that countrey). These Gentlemen, after they had a while examined my Shape with much nicety, were of different Opinions concerning me. They all agreed, that I could not be produced according to the regular laws of Nature, because I was not framed with a capacity of preserving my life, either by Swiftness, or climbing of Trees, or digging Holes in the Earth. They observed by my Teeth, which they viewed with great Exactness, that I was a carnivorous Animal; yet most Quadrupeds being an Overmatch for me, and Field Mice, with some others, too nimble, they could not imagine how I should be able to support myself, unless I fed upon Snails and other Insects, which they offered by many learned arguments to evince that I could not possibly do One of these Virtuosi seemed to think that I might be an Embry, or abortive Birth. But this Opinion was rejected by the other Two, who observed my limbs to be perfect and finished, and that I had lived several years, as it was manifested from my Beard, the Stumps whereof they plainly discovered through a magnifying-glass. They would not allow me to be a Dwarf, because my Littleness was beyond all Degrees of comparison for, the Queen's favourite Dwarf, the smallest ever known in that kingdom, was near Thirty foot high.
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