Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary

The continent, as far as it is subject to the monarch of the flying island, passes under the general name of Balnibarbi; and the metropolis, as I said before, is called Lagado. I felt some little satisfaction in finding myself on firm ground. I walked to the city without any concern, being clad like one of the natives, and sufficiently instructed to converse with them.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)

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In the present disappearance of coin, no person could think it the same country in which the present minister of the finances has been able to discover fourscore millions sterling in specie. From its general aspect one would conclude that it had been for some time past under the special direction of the learned academicians of Laputa and Balnibarbi.

Edmund Burke. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 3 (of 12)