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"Moreover, a resistance to reductions in money-wages applying to particular industries does not raise the same insuperable bar to an increase in aggregate employment which would result from a similar resistance to every reduction in real wages. " (F) At this point in the book, Keynes is already analyzing how sensitive the economy can be.

postulates - suggest or assume the existence, fact, or truth of (something) as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or belief

"Subject to these qualifications, the volume of employed resources is duly determined,
according to the classical theory, by the two postulates." (V)

"The women of the island have abundance of vivacity"
Vivacity - the quality of being attractively lively and animated (V)

Why didn't Gulliver's ship attempt to avoid being boarded by pirates? Why wasn't there a struggle for the pirates to board? (A)

Swift uses his vocabulary to strike fear/anxiety into the reader's head by describing the scene, "When I came to my own house, for which I was forced to inquire, one of the servants opening the door, I bent down to go in..."

He was perfectly astonished with the historical account
gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting ‘it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce.’" The number of adjectives that Swift uses (F)

"But one day, I took a thick cudgel, and threw it..."
Cudgel - a short thick stick used as a weapon.

'Supplicating' - ask or beg for something earnestly or humbly.
"All I ventured was to raise mine eyes towards the sun, and place my hands together in a supplicating posture" (V)

I really like the creativity that Swift uses in this sentence, "This lord, in conjunction with Flimnap the high-treasurer, whose enmity against you is notorious on account of his lady, Limtoc the general, Lalcon the chamberlain, and Balmuff the grand justiciary, have prepared articles of impeachment against you, for treason and other capital crimes.’" (W)

I really like how Swift is comparing the lives of the Lilliputians indirectly with the lives of actual humans while expressing how corrupt society can be (F)

Again, Swift uses satire to expose traditions that seem really unnecessary, "The learned among them confess
the absurdity of this doctrine; but the practice still
continues, in compliance to the vulgar." (W)

By this point in the book, Jonathan Swift is using satire without hesitating, and he's also writing really well rhetorically, "...where it was opposed
by none, except Skyresh Bolgolam, who was pleased,
without any provocation, to be my mortal enemy." (W)

"On each side of the gate was a small window, not above six inches from the ground: into that on the left side, the king’s smith conveyed fourscore and eleven chains, like those that hang to a lady’s watch in Europe, and almost as large, which were locked to my left leg with six-and-thirty padlocks." (F) I really like this quote because of the imagery it displays.

I think Gulliver will end up doing something to make the Lilliputian emperor angry and being banished from the island entirely. (P)

"Hekinah degul" A made up word by Swift, it possibly means, "What in the Devil" in the made up language "Lilliputian". The natives of the island repeated this phrase multiple times as Gulliver lay on the shore after a ship wreak.

“...at whatever point of the scientific horizon I start from, I invariably come to the same thing—the solution of the social problem is in liberty.” (F)

“Thus, liberty is power. In what does this power consist? In possessing education and tools of labor. Who is to give education and tools of labor? Society, who owes them” Bastiat in this essay, has redundantly used rhetorical questions, and even though at times it seems as if he is overusing them, he always manages to tie the questions together with a well developed response. (F)

“And what is liberty, whose name can make every heart beat, and which can agitate the world, but the union of all liberties, the liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of movement, of labor".
I really like this quote because it engages the reader to think critically because of the well placed rhetorical question. Along with that, the sheer complexity of this sentence is just amazing

At this point in the book, Bastiat shows a recurring theme of what the benefits of socialism really are; a better healthcare, better education, and most importantly, no upper class slowly destroying the middle and lower classes (T)

“Abolish this law without delay; it is not merely an iniquity—it is a fertile source of iniquities, for it invites reprisals; and if you do not take care, the exceptional case will extend, multiply, and become systematic". Bastiat is essentially saying to eradicate the laws that favor the one percent otherwise, people will start to uprise. I'm amazed by this quote because it can apply to any era in history (F).

After Bastiat lays out the foundation of his argument in the first 10 pages of this book, he starts developing a connection with the readers by asking only a series of rhetorical questions in a single paragraph. I think that this was a great strategy by Bastiat because he primarily wrote this essay/book for the commoners of France, and to teach them the general idea of how the law should be represented. (W)

In the beginning of this essay, Bastiat displays a great work of rhetoric by introducing what actually makes man create laws. In the first few paragraph he stresses multiple times that man has the right to: personality, liberty, and property, and those qualities are the foundation to why laws must exist. The structure of the beginning of the book is also great because it is mainly short and concise paragraphs.