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Offline Deskman

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1889 diary p6 Brobdingnag - with image!
« on: Friday 16 February 18 14:42 GMT (UK) »
The notes on Gulliver's Travels become difficult again here.  Can you help with the xxxx?

The book's text is here http://www.gutenberg.org/files/829/829-h/829-h.htm

"king from appreciating the state of things in which a bishop got his preferment
because of his pandaring to some great lord & the offices of army & state were given
thro court intrigues -..."

Thanks for any ideas.

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Re: 1889 diary p6 Brobdingnag - with image!
« Reply #1 on: Friday 16 February 18 15:23 GMT (UK) »
pandering

intrigues

(I think!)

The first one looks a bit like pandaring, which is apparently an old form of the word, though as far as I can tell, it wouldn't still have been in use in 1889.
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Bartle, Bilton, Bingley, Campbell, Craven, Emmott, Harcourt, Hirst, Kellet(t), Kennedy,
Meaburn, Mennile/Meynell, Metcalf(e), Palliser, Robinson, Rutter, Shipley, Stow, Wilkinson

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Re: 1889 diary p6 Brobdingnag - with image!
« Reply #2 on: Friday 16 February 18 16:10 GMT (UK) »
That is so sweet arthurk. An anachronistic pandaring seems to suit our man so well. Thanks for the fine work.
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