Gulliver's Travels

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The Author’s Veracity—His Design in publishing this Work—His Censure of those Travelers who swerve from the Truth—The Author clears himself from any Sinister Ends in writing—An Objection answered—The Method of planting Colonies—His Native Country commended—The Right of the Crown to those Countries described by the Author is justified—The Difficulty of conquering them—The Author takes his Last Leave of the Reader; proposes his Manner of Living for the Future; gives Good Advice, and concludes 337 “I FOUND MY ARMS AND LEGS WERE STRONGLY FASTENED ON EACH SIDE TO THE GROUND” Title Jonathan Swift, whose name stands unchallenged at the head of the list of English satirists, was born on Irish soil, for it was in Dublin on November 30, 1667, that he opened his eyes upon a career in which fortune and misfortune alternated in swift succession for seventy-eight years. Before his birth his father died, and his youth was embittered by the grudging provision made by an uncle for his education. Though a keen lover of history and poetry, he held in high disdain the ordinary study routine and the various regulations which govern institutions, obtaining his degree from Trinity College in Ireland’s capital city only by grace of special indulgence.

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