The works of Dean Swift Author:Jonathan Swift Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT.1 CHAPTER I. Th author givta some account of himsetf and famity—hU finrt inducements t, tnvet—he u shipwrecked, and awims for his tife... more »—geU safe on shore in tbe country of Littiput—ia made a prisoner, and carried up ihe country. Mr father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the third of five sons. He sent me to Eman- uel College in Cambridge, at fourteen years 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 1 Gulliver's Travels were originally designed to form part of a satire on the Abuse of Human Learning, projected by Pope, Swift, and Arbuthnot. In their joint publication, the " Memoir of Mariinus Scriblerus," the sketch of the work is thus given by Pope:— " It was in the year 1699, that Martin set out on his travels. Thou wilt certainly be very curious to know what they were. It Is not yet time to inform thee; but what hints I am at liberty to give I will. "Thou shalt know, then, that in his first voyage he waa carried by a prosperous storm to a discovery of the ancient Pygmean empire. "That, in his second, he was happily shipwrecked on the land of the Giants, the most humane people in the world. '' That, in his third, he discovered a whole kingdom of philoso great for a narrow fortune, I was bound apprentice to Mr. James Bates, an eminent surgeon in London, with whom I continued four years; and my father now and then sending me small sums of money, I phers, who govern by the mathematics; with whose admirable schemes and projects he returned to benefit his own dear eoumry; but had the misfortune to find them rejected by the envious ministers of Queen Anne, and himself sent treacherously way. " And hence it i...« less