Gulliver's Travels: Into Several Remote Nations of the World
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My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons. He sent me to EmanucJ College in Cambridge, at fourteen yea.rs old, where I resided three years, and applied myself close to my studies; but the charge of maintaining me (although I had a very scanty allowance) being too great for a narrow fortune, I was bound a.pprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London...
MoreMy father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons. He sent me to EmanucJ College in Cambridge, at fourteen yea.rs old, where I resided three years, and applied myself close to my studies; but the charge of maintaining me (although I had a very scanty allowance) being too great for a narrow fortune, I was bound a.pprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with ,whom I continued four years; and my fa.ther now and then sending me small sums of money, I laid them out in learning navigation, and other parts of the mathematics, useful to those who intend to travel, as I always believed it would be some time or other my fortune to do. Vhen r left 11r. Bates, I went down to my father; where, by the assistance of him and my uncle John, and some other relations, I got forty pounds, and a promise of thirty pounds a year to maintain me at Leyden: there I A
Table of Contents
PART I; A VOYAGE TO LILLI PUT; CHAPTER I; The All thor gives some account of himself and family, his first inducem~; nt~ to travel He is shipwrecked and swims for his lite, gets; safe on shore jn th~ country of Lillipllt, is made a prisoner, and; can-ieci up the cOlin try; CHAPTER II; The Emperor of Lilliput, attended by several of the nobility, comes to; See the Author in his confinement, 'rhe Emperor's person and; habit iletlcribed Learneci men appointed to te::ch the Author; their language He gains favour by hit:; mild di~position His; pocl((!ts ar~ search~d, and his sword and pistols taken from; PA(:I!; him 12; CHAPTER III; The 'lIthor diverts the Emperor and his nobility of both sexes in a; v~ry uncommon manner The diver:,;ions of the Court of Lilliput; dt:~crih~(1 The A u thor has his liberty granted him upon certain; conditions; CHAPTER IV; Mildendo the metropolis of Lilliput, described, togdher 'with
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