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===Early works=== In 1728, [[John Arbuthnot]] wrote ''An account of the state of learning in the empire of Lilliput: Together with the history and character of Bullum the Emperor's Library-Keeper''; this purported to be transcribed from a treatise by Gulliver on the empire of Lilliput alluded to in chapter 4 of ''Gulliver's Travels''.<ref>Swift, chapter 4 ("a greater work, which is now almost ready for the press; containing a general description of this empire, from its first erection, through a long series of princes; with a particular account of their wars and politics, laws, learning, and religion; their plants and animals; their peculiar manners and customs, with other matters very curious and useful")</ref> Arbuthnot used this work to satirise [[Richard Bentley]], master of [[Trinity College, Cambridge]]<ref>{{cite book |title=The life of Richard Bentley, DD |last=Monk |first=James Henry Monk |author-link=James Henry Monk |publisher=J. G. & F. Rivington |location=London |year=1833 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lbIDAAAAYAAJ |page=374}}</ref> but also described the early history of Lilliput and Blefuscu. At one time (Gulliver is told), Blefuscu was a commonwealth and had its own language and an extensive literature. Lilliput, meanwhile, was divided among several petty kingdoms. The first emperor of Blefuscu attacked and subdued Lilliput, but later the Lilliputians won their independence and set up their own emperor.<ref>{{cite book |title=An account of the state of learning in the empire of Lilliput: Together with the history and character of Bullum the Emperor's Library-Keeper |last=Arbuthnot |first=John |author-link=John Arbuthnot |publisher=J. Roberts |location=London |year=1728 |url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004835997.0001.000 |pages=6β9 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140628083514/http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004835997.0001.000 |archive-date=28 June 2014 }}</ref>
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