作业帮格列佛游记英语优美词句摘抄
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格列佛游记英语优美词句摘抄
格列佛游记英语优美词句摘抄
格列佛游记英语优美词句摘抄
there I studied physic twoyears and seven months,knowing it would be useful in long voyages.
Soon after my return from Leyden,I was recommended by my goodmaster,Mr.Bates,to be surgeon to the Swallow,Captain AbrahamPannel,commander; with whom I continued three years and a half,making a voyage or two into the Levant,and some other parts.WhenI came back I resolved to settle in London; to which Mr.Bates,mymaster,encouraged me,and by him I was recommended to severalpatients.I took part of a small house in the Old Jewry; and beingadvised to alter my condition,I married Mrs.Mary Burton,seconddaughter to Mr.Edmund Burton,hosier,in Newgate-street,with whomI received four hundred pounds for a portion.
But my good master Bates dying in two years after,and I having fewfriends,my business began to fail; for my conscience would notsuffer me to imitate the bad practice of too many among mybrethren.Having therefore consulted with my wife,and some of myacquaintance,I determined to go again to sea.I was surgeonsuccessively in two ships,and made several voyages,for six years,to the East and West Indies,by which I got some addition to myfortune.My hours of leisure I spent in reading the best authors,ancient and modern,being always provided with a good number ofbooks; and when I was ashore,in observing the manners anddispositions of the people,as well as learning their language;wherein I had a great facility,by the strength of my memory.