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Gulliver's Travels

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Автор: Jonathan Swift

Форматы: PDF

Серия: Palmyra Classics

Издательство: Пальмира|Книга по Требованию

Год: 2017

Место издания: Санкт-Петербург | Москва

ISBN: 978-5-521-00169-9

Страниц: 237

Артикул: 12213

Возрастная маркировка: 12+

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А LETTER FROM Capt. GULLIVER TO HIS Cousin SYMPSON
THE Publisher to the Reader
PART I. A VOYAGE TO Lilliput
PART II. A VOYAGE TO Brobdingnag
PART III. A VOYAGE TO Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan
PART IV. A VOYAGE TO The Country of the Houyhnhnms

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156 Gullivers Travels whole System how I should employ myself and pass the Time if I were sure to live for ever. THAT, if it had been my good Fortune to come into the World a Struldbrugg; as soon as I could discover my own Happiness by under-standing the Difference between Life and Death, I would first resolve by all Arts and Methods whatsoever to procure myself Riches: In the Pursuit of which, by Thrift and Management, I might reasonably ex-pect in about two Hundred Years, to be the wealthiest Man in the Kingdom. In the second Place, I would from my earliest Youth apply myself to the Study of Arts and Sciences, by which I should arrive in time to excel all others in Learning. Lastly, I would carefully record every Action and Event of Consequence that happened in the Pub-lick, impartially draw the Characters of the several Successions of Princes, and great Ministers of State; with my own Observations on every Point. I would exactly set down the several Changes in Cus-toms, Languages, Fashions, Dress, Dyet and Diversions. By all which Acquirements, I should be a living Treasury of Knowledge and Wis-dom, and certainly become the Oracle of the Nation. I WOULD never marry after Threescore, but live in an hospitable Manner, yet still on the saving Side. I would entertain myself in form-ing and directing the Minds of hopeful young Men, by convincing them from my own Remembrance, Experience and Observation, for-tified by numerous Examples, of the Usefulness of Virtue in publick and private Life. But, my choise and constant Companions should be a Sett of my own immortal Brotherhood, among whom I would elect a Dozen from the most ancient down to my own Contemporaries. Where any of these wanted Fortunes, I would provide them with convenient Lodges round my own Estate, and have some of them always at my Table, only mingling a few of the most valuable among you Mortals, whom Length of Time would harden me to lose with little or no Reluctance, and treat your Posterity after t...

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