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The Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. 3: Containing Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World; In Four Parts, Viz. I. A Voyage to Lilliput; II. A Voyage to Brobdingnag; III. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Japan; IV. A Voyage - Softcover
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Excerpt from The Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. 3: Containing Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World; In Four Parts, Viz. I. A Voyage to Lilliput; II. A Voyage to Brobdingnag; III. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Japan; IV. A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
Hope, you will be ready to own publickly, Whenever you iball be called to it, that by your great and frequent Ur ency, you prevailed on me to publié a very loofe and un correét Account of my Travels to hire fome young Gentlemen of either Univerfity to put them in Order, and correct the Style, as my n Dampier did by my Ad vice, ln his Book called, A Voyage round the World.
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