Giphantia. Charles-François Tiphaigne de La Roche

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       Charles-François Tiphaigne de La Roche

      Giphantia

      Or a View of What Has Passed, What Is Now Passing, and, During the Present Century, What Will Pass, in the World

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664647382

Table of Contents

       Introduction.

       CHAP. I. The Hurricane.

       CHAP. II. The fine Prospect.

       CHAP. III. The Voice.

       CHAP. IV. The Reverse.

       CHAP. V. The Apparitions.

       CHAP. VI. The Surfaces.

       CHAP. VII. The Globe.

       CHAP. VIII. Discourses.

       CHAP. IX. Happiness.

       CHAP. X. The Hodge-Podge.

       CHAP. XI. The Mirrour.

       CHAP. XII. The Trial.

       CHAP. XIII. The Talents.

       CHAP. XIV. The Taste of the Age.

       CHAP. XV. The Female Reasoner.

       CHAP. XVI. The Crocodiles.

       CHAP. XVII. The Storm.

       CHAP. XVIII. The Gallery or The Fortune of Mankind.

       CHAP. XIX. The other Side of the Gallery.

       GIPHANTIA: PART II.

       TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS. PART II.

       CHAP. I. The Repast.

       CHAP. II. The Kernels.

       CHAP. III. Antient Love.

       CHAP. IV. The Grafts.

       CHAP. V. Voluptas or Pleasure .

       CHAP. VI. Perpetual Youth.

       CHAP. VII. The Itchings.

       CHAP. VIII. Compensations.

       CHAP. IX. Nil Admirari.

       CHAP. X. The Fantastical Tree.

       CHAP. XI. Predictions.

       CHAP. XII. The System.

       CHAP. XIII. Letter to the Europeans.

       CHAP. XIV. The Maxims.

       CHAP. XV. The Thermometers.

       CHAP. XVI. The Lentils.

       CHAP. XVII. The Subterraneous Road.

Introduction.

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      No man ever had a stronger inclination for travelling than myself. I consider’d the whole earth as my country, and all mankind as my brethren, and therefore thought it incumbent upon me to travel thro’ the earth and visit my brethren. I have walk’d over the ruins of the antient world, have view’d the monuments of modern pride, and, at the sight of all-devouring time, have wept over both. I have often found great folly among the nations that pass for the most civiliz’d, and sometimes as great wisdom among those that are counted the most savage. I have seen small states supported by virtue, and mighty empires shaken by vice, whilst a mistaken policy has been employ’d to inrich the subjects, without any endeavours to render them virtuous.

      After having gone over the whole world and visited all the inhabitants, I find it does not answer the pains I have taken. I have just been reviewing my memoirs concerning the several nations, their prejudices, their customs and manners, their politicks, their laws, their religion, their history; and I have thrown them all into the fire. It grieves me to record such a monstrous mixture of humanity and barbarousness, of grandeur and meanness, of reason and folly.

      The small part, I have preserv’d, is what I am now publishing. If it has no other merit, certainly it has novelty to recommend it.

CHAP. I.

       The Hurricane.

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