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Gulliver’s Travels · Excerpt
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 …
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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, some time or other, my fortune to do.Source and rights
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- Gulliver’s Travels
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- Historical English text
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- Public-domain English text.
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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, some time or other, my fortune to do.