From Jonathan Swift's 1726 classic Gulliver's Travels, the King of Brobdingnag reported by Gulliver:
He was perfectly astonished with the historical account I gave him of our affairs during the last century, protesting it was only an heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments; the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition could produce.
Tags: Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
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