Gulliver's Travels [antikvár]

CHAPTER I The Author gives somé account of himself and family. HlS first inducéments to travel. HE is shipweécked, and swims for his life, gets safi on shore in the cöuntry of Lilliput, is made A p'rísoner, and garried up the ÖÖÜNTRY. My father had a small estate ín Kottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons. He sent ffie to Emánuel College in Cambridge at fourteen years old, where I resided three yeárs, and applied myself close to my studies; but the charge of maintaining me (although I had a very scanty alíowatice) being too great for a narrow fortune, I was böUfid apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeoft ín London, with whom I continued four years; and my father 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 somé time or other my fortune to do. When I left Mr. Bates, I went down to my father; where, by the assistance of him and my uncle John, and somé other relations, I got forty 9