December QA Gullivers Travels 格列佛遊記 （十二月）Treasure Island-Robert Louis Stevenson 金銀島
December QA Gullivers Travels 12/24-30 no school 12/1 CHAPTER IV . The Houyhnhnms’ notion of truth and falsehood. The author’s discourse disapproved by his master. The author gives a more particular account of himself, and the accidents of his voyage. My master heard me with great appearances of uneasiness in his countenance; because doubting , or not believing, are so little known in this country, that the inhabitants cannot tell how to behave themselves under such circumstances. And I remember, in frequent discourses with my master concerning the nature of manhood in other parts of the world, having occasion to talk of lying and false representation , it was with much difficulty that he comprehended what I meant, although he had otherwise a most acute judgment. For he argued thus: “that the use of speech was to make us understand one another, and to receive information of facts; now, if any one said the thing which was not , these ends were defeated, because I cannot properly be