https://padlet.com/18latonac/ivtbescoq12f en-us 2015-12-09 13:48:20 UTC 2023-04-05 08:50:34 UTC hello@padlet.com 18latonac https://padlet.com/18latonac/ivtbescoq12f/wish/106430038 "I walked very circumspectly for fear of being surprised, or suddenly shot with an Arrow from behind, or on either Side." (p 167). 

Definition: "thinking carefully about possible risks before doing or saying something" (Merriam Webster Dictionary)

]]> 2016-04-19 00:04:56 UTC https://padlet.com/18latonac/ivtbescoq12f/wish/106430038 18latonac https://padlet.com/18latonac/ivtbescoq12f/wish/106430941 "...I thought it to comply, till I could find a better Director." (pg 170)

Definition: "having or showing careful good judgment" (Merriam Webster Dictionary)]]> 2016-04-19 00:17:03 UTC https://padlet.com/18latonac/ivtbescoq12f/wish/106430941 18latonac https://padlet.com/18latonac/ivtbescoq12f/wish/106431547 "It was at first a very insipid Diet, although common enough in many Parts of Europe, but grew tolerable by Time..."(pg 174)

Definition: " not interesting or exciting; dull or boring; lacking strong flavor" (Merriam Webster Dictionary)

]]> 2016-04-19 00:24:42 UTC https://padlet.com/18latonac/ivtbescoq12f/wish/106431547 18latonac https://padlet.com/18latonac/ivtbescoq12f/wish/106432085 "I expressed my Uneasiness at his giving me so often the Appellation of Yahoo, an Odious Animal, for which I had so utter an Hatred and Contempt" (pg 178

Definitions:
Appellation: "a name or title" 

Odious: "causing hatred or strong dislike" 
(Merriam Webster Dictionary)]]> 2016-04-19 00:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/18latonac/ivtbescoq12f/wish/106432085 18latonac https://padlet.com/18latonac/ivtbescoq12f/wish/106868929 "The Beast and I were brought close together; and our Countenances diligently compared,both by Master and Servant, who thereupon repeated several Times the Word Yahoo."(172)

Definition: 
Savage, human-like beasts.
(word made up by Jonathan Swift) ]]> 2016-04-20 19:09:16 UTC https://padlet.com/18latonac/ivtbescoq12f/wish/106868929 18latonac https://padlet.com/18latonac/ivtbescoq12f/wish/106892307 "I owned, that the Houyhnhnms among us, whom we called Horses, were the most generous and comely Animal we had..."(180)

Definition: Horses with high intellect and human-like behavior (made up by Jonathan Swift]]> 2016-04-20 22:27:31 UTC https://padlet.com/18latonac/ivtbescoq12f/wish/106892307 18latonac https://padlet.com/18latonac/ivtbescoq12f/wish/106892632 "But it is impossible to express his noble resentment at our savage treatment of the Houyhnhnm race particularly after I had explained the manner and use of castrating horses among us to hinder them from propagating their kind..."(181)

Definition: breed animals by natural processes of parents
(Merriam Webster Dictionary)

]]> 2016-04-20 22:33:04 UTC https://padlet.com/18latonac/ivtbescoq12f/wish/106892632 18latonac https://padlet.com/18latonac/ivtbescoq12f/wish/106893519 "My Master said, he could never discover the Reason of this Unnatural Appetite or how these stones could be of any use to a Yahoo; but now he believed it might proceed from the same principle of avarice, which I had ascribed to Mankind."(196)

Definition: extreme greed for wealth or material gain.
(Merriam Webster Dictionary)]]> 2016-04-20 22:48:33 UTC https://padlet.com/18latonac/ivtbescoq12f/wish/106893519 18latonac https://padlet.com/18latonac/ivtbescoq12f/wish/106897619  "My Master continued his Discourse, said, There was nothing that rendered the Yahoos more odious, than their usdistinguishing Appetite to devour everything that came in their Way..."(197)

Definition: written or spoken communication or debate.]]> 2016-04-20 23:53:26 UTC https://padlet.com/18latonac/ivtbescoq12f/wish/106897619 18latonac https://padlet.com/18latonac/ivtbescoq12f/wish/106897830 "For, he only meant to observe what Parity there was in our Natures."(198)

Definition: the state or condition of being equal, especially regarding status or pay.]]> 2016-04-20 23:56:30 UTC https://padlet.com/18latonac/ivtbescoq12f/wish/106897830 18latonac https://padlet.com/18latonac/ivtbescoq12f/wish/106898120 "One of the members for the affirmative offered several arguments of great strength and weight; alledging, That, as the Yahoos were the most filthy, noisome , and deformed Animal which Nature ever produced, so they were the most restive and indocible, mischievous and malicious."(205)

Definition: unteachable ]]> 2016-04-21 00:00:39 UTC https://padlet.com/18latonac/ivtbescoq12f/wish/106898120