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THE TRAVELS OF JONATHAN SWIFT AND LEMUEL GULLIVER

"I find likewise that your printer hath been so careless as to confound the times, and mistake the dates of my several voyages and returns, neither assigning the true year, or true month, or day of the month; and I hear the original manuscript is all destroyed since the publication of my book. Neither have I any copy left; however, I have sent you some corrections, which you may insert if ever there should be a second edition: and yet I cannot stand to them, but shall leave that matter to my judicious and candid readers, to adjust it as they please.": Capt. Gulliver to his Cousin Sympson

UNDER CONSTRUCTION


Lemuel Gulliver Events

  • born approx. May, 1661
  • 1675: entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge
  • 1678: surgeon's apprentice
  • 1682: studies in Leyden
  • 1684: surgeon on the Swallow
  • 1686: voyages to the Levant
  • 1688: marriage; business enterprise failing
  • 1689:
  • 1690: Master Bates' death
  • 1691: surgeon in two ships to the Indies; read “the best authors ancient and modern” and learned foreign customs and languages
  • 1696: grew tired of the sea
  • 1696-99: no luck in business
  • 1699: “advantageous offer” to be surgeon on the Antelope with Capt.Prichard

Jonathan Swift Events

  • born Nov. 30, 1667
  • 1682: entered Trinity College
  • 1686: B.A; remained at Trinity
  • 1688: left Ireland because of the Williamite troubles
  • 1689: entered Temple's household; met the child Stella
  • 1690: to Ireland for preferment
  • 1691: return to Moor Park
  • 1692: (July 5) Oxford M.A.
  • 1694: (Oct. 2) ordained Deacon
  • 1695: (Jan. 13) ordained Priest; appointed to Kilroot
  • 1696: return to Moor Park
  • 1696-99: no preferment; boredom
  • 1699: Chaplain to Berkeley
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