Balnibarbi

Having described such a foolish scientific community in Lemuel Gulliver's third voyage (to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan), Swift knew the human animal quite well.

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The island in turn is a macrocosm when com - pared to the loadstone, but it is a microcosm in com - parison with Balnibarbi, which it governs in the sense that it had the power to shut out light and rain from the country below.

COSMIC VOYAGES MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968

The Flying Island of Laputa did not fly free or wild: it was governed by the mainland of Balnibarbi below, as is shown by the map which charts its course.

COSMIC VOYAGES MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968

So the little world rose or fell, governed by the magentic attraction of Balnibarbi.

COSMIC VOYAGES MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968

From its general aspect one would conclude that it had been for some time past under the special direction of the learned academicians of Laputa and Balnibarbi.

Paras. 225-249 1909

Flying Island, passes under the general name of Balnibarbi, and the metropolis, as I said before, is called Lagado.

Gulliver's Travels 1896

AB represent a line drawn cross the dominions of Balnibarbi, let the line cd represent the loadstone, of which let d be the repelling end, and c the attracting end, the island being over C; let the stone be placed in the position cd, with its repelling end downwards; then the island will be driven upwards obliquely towards D.

Gulliver's Travels 1896

Balnibarbi and Japan, he observed that every man desired to put off death for some time longer, let it approach ever so late; and he rarely heard of any man who died willingly, except he were incited by the extremity of grief or torture.

Gulliver's Travels 1896

This officer spoke to me in the language of Balnibarbi, which by the force of much commerce is generally understood in that town, especially by seamen, and those employed in the customs.

Gulliver's Travels 1896

I therefore told the officer, that having been shipwrecked on the coast of Balnibarbi, and cast on a rock, I was received up into Laputa, or the Flying Island (of which he had often heard), and was now endeavoring to get to Japan, from whence I might find a convenience of returning to my own country.

Gulliver's Travels 1896