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JONATHAN SWIFT
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS: PASSAGE No 1
created by Savino Carrella
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CHAPTER I
My father
(have) a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I
(be) the third of five sons.
He
(send) me to Emanuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I
(reside) three years, and
(apply) myself close to my studies: but the charge of
(maintain) me (although I
(have) a very scanty allowance)
(be) too great for a narrow fortune, I
(be) bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I
(continue) four years; and my father now and then
(send) me small sums of money, I
(lay) them out in
(learn) navigation, and other parts of the mathematics, useful to those who
(intend)
(travel), as I always
(believe) it
(be) some time or other my fortune
(do). When I
(leave) Mr. Bates, I
(go down) to my father; where, by the assistance of him and my uncle John, and some other relations, I
(get) forty pounds, and a promise of thirty pounds a year
(maintain) me at Leyden: there I
(study) physic two years and seven months,
(know) it
(be) useful in long voyages.
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