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Giphantia

by Charles-François Tiphaigne de La Roche

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Author
Tiphaigne de La Roche, Charles-François, 1722-1774
Title
Giphantia Or a View of What Has Passed, What Is Now Passing, and, During the Present Century, What Will Pass, in the World.
Credits
Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject
Voyages, Imaginary -- Fiction
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 60058
Release Date
August 4, 2019
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.GIPHANTIA: OR A VIEW of What HAS PASSED, What IS NOW PASSING, And, during the PRESENT Century, What WILL PASS, IN THE WORLD.
  2. 2.TO THE Hon ble Miss ROSS.
  3. 3.TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS.
  4. 4.Introduction.
  5. 5.CHAP. I. The Hurricane.
  6. 6.CHAP. II. The fine Prospect.
  7. 7.CHAP. III. The Voice.
  8. 8.CHAP. IV. The Reverse.
  9. 9.CHAP. V. The Apparitions.
  10. 10.CHAP. VI. The Surfaces.
  11. 11.CHAP. VII. The Globe.
  12. 12.CHAP. VIII. Discourses.
  13. 13.CHAP. IX. Happiness.
  14. 14.CHAP. X. The Hodge-Podge.
  15. 15.CHAP. XI. The Mirrour.
  16. 16.CHAP. XII. The Trial.
  17. 17.CHAP. XIII. The Talents.
  18. 18.CHAP. XIV. The Taste of the Age.
  19. 19.CHAP. XV. The Female Reasoner.
  20. 20.CHAP. XVI. The Crocodiles.
  21. 21.CHAP. XVII. The Storm.
  22. 22.CHAP. XVIII. The Gallery or The Fortune of Mankind.
  23. 23.CHAP. XIX. The other Side of the Gallery.
  24. 24.GIPHANTIA: PART II.
  25. 25.TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS. PART II.
  26. 26.CHAP. I. The Repast.
  27. 27.CHAP. II. The Kernels.
  28. 28.CHAP. III. Antient Love.
  29. 29.CHAP. IV. The Grafts.
  30. 30.CHAP. V. Voluptas or Pleasure .
  31. 31.CHAP. VI. Perpetual Youth.
  32. 32.CHAP. VII. The Itchings.
  33. 33.CHAP. VIII. Compensations.
  34. 34.CHAP. IX. Nil Admirari.
  35. 35.CHAP. X. The Fantastical Tree.
  36. 36.CHAP. XI. Predictions.
  37. 37.CHAP. XII. The System.
  38. 38.CHAP. XIII. Letter to the Europeans.
  39. 39.CHAP. XIV. The Maxims.
  40. 40.CHAP. XV. The Thermometers.
  41. 41.CHAP. XVI. The Lentils.
  42. 42.CHAP. XVII. The Subterraneous Road.
  43. 43.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

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