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Gargantua
I must refer you to the great chronicle of Pantagruel for the knowledge of that genealogy and antiquity of race by which Gargantua is come unto us. In it you may understand more at large how the giants were born in this world, and how from them by a direct line issued Gargantua, the father of Pantagruel: and do not take it ill, if for this time I pass by it, although the subject be such, that the oftener it were remembered, the more it would please your worshipful Seniorias; according to which you have the authority of Plato in Philebo and Gorgias; and of Flaccus, who says that there are some kinds of purposes (such as these are without doubt), which, the frequentlier they be repeated, still prove the more delectable.Would to God everyone had as certain knowledge of his genealogy since the time of the ark of Noah until this age. I think many are at this day emperors, kings, dukes, princes, and popes on the earth, whose extraction is from some porters and pardon-pedlars; as, on the contrary, many are now poor wandering beggars, wretched and miserable, who are descended of the blood and lineage of great kings and emperors, occasioned, as I conceive it, by the transport and revolution of kingdoms and empires, from the Assyrians to the Medes, from the Medes to the Persians, from the Persians to the Macedonians, from the Macedonians to the Romans, from the Romans to the Greeks, from the Greeks to the French.
Book Details
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: Jul 4th, 2020
- Pages: 130
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.28in - 0.40lb
- EAN: 9798663078061
- Categories: • Fantasy - General
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Gargantua is the name of a giant king in François Rabelais's 16th-century satiric novel "Gargantua." "Gargantuan" became an adjective by Shakespeare's time.
What people are saying
John Sailors
@JohnSailors
2 years
Writer, Editor | History, English Language, Fiction | Magellan's Unlikely Explorers, Targets in English | @CircumNavgating #EFA #Taiwan
Gargantua is the name of a giant king in François Rabelais's 16th-century satiric novel "Gargantua." "Gargantuan" became an adjective by Shakespeare's time.