Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary

He said, “if it were possible there could be any country where Yahoos alone were endued with reason, they certainly must be the governing animal; because reason in time will always prevail against brutal strength.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels (1726)

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But I see nothing in the human machine, and in the intelligence with which it is endued, that announces very precisely the infinite intelligence of the maker to whom it is ascribed. I see that this admirable machine is liable to be deranged;

Baron D'Holbach. Good Sense (1772)

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In that way Vinteuil’s phrase, like some theme, say, in Tristan, which represents to us also a certain acquisition of sentiment, has espoused our mortal state, had endued a vesture of humanity that was affecting enough.

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]