GULLIVER S TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD: 2019 EDITION BY JONATHAN SWIFT

SWIFT, JONATHAN

ISBN 10: 1092723498 / ISBN 13: 9781092723497

Edité par Independently published, 2019

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211 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.48 inches. In Stock.

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• Titre: GULLIVER S TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD: 2019 EDITION BY JONATHAN SWIFT
• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date de parution: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1092723498
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781092723497
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Brand New

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My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire: I was the third of five sons.He sent me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where Iresided three years, and applied myself close to my studies; but the charge ofmaintaining me, although I had a very scanty allowance, being too great for anarrow fortune, I was bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminentsurgeon in London, with whom I continued four years. My father now andthen 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 Ialways believed it would be, some time or other, my fortune to do. When Ileft Mr. Bates, I went down to my father: where, by the assistance of him andmy uncle John, and some other relations, I got forty pounds, and a promise ofthirty pounds a year to maintain me at Leyden: there I studied physic twoyears and seven months, knowing it would be useful in long voyages.Soon after my return from Leyden, I was recommended by my good master,Mr. Bates, to be surgeon to the Swallow, Captain Abraham Pannel,commander; with whom I continued three years and a half, making a voyageor two into the Levant, and some other parts. When I came back I resolved tosettle in London; to which Mr. Bates, my master, encouraged me, and by himI was recommended to several patients. I took part of a small house in theOld Jewry; and being advised to alter my condition, I married Mrs. MaryBurton, second daughter to Mr. Edmund Burton, hosier, in Newgate-street,with whom I received four hundred pounds for a portion.But my good master Bates dying in two years after, and I having few friends,my business began to fail; for my conscience would not suffer me to imitatethe bad practice of too many among my brethren. Having therefore consultedwith my wife, and some of my acquaintance, I determined to go again to sea.I was surgeon successively in two ships, and made several voyages, for sixyears, to the East and West Indies, by which I got some addition to myfortune. My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors, ancient andmodern, being always provided with a good number of books; and when Iwas ashore, in observing the manners and dispositions of the people, as wellas learning their language; wherein I had a great facility, by the strength of mymemory.