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It
is allowed on all hands, that the primitive way of breaking eggs, |
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before
we eat them, was upon the larger end; but his present majesty's grandfather, |
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while
he was a boy, going to eat an egg, and breaking it according to the ancient
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happened
to cut one of his fingers. Whereupon
the emperor his father published an edict, |
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commanding all his
subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs. |
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It
is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered
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rather
than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end. |
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Many
hundred large volumes have been published upon this controversy: |
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but the books of the Big-endians have been long forbidden. |
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-- Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels |
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What other
computer-related name comes from Swift? |
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