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- Lillput (I:6;11-18): "Parents are the last of all others to be trusted with the Education of their own Children: and therefore they have in every Town publick Nurseries, where all Parents, except Cottagers and Labourers, are obliged to send their Infants of both Sexes to be reared and educated when they come to the Age of twenty Moons" (I:6;11)
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| Emanuel College in Cambridge | Emmanuel College (founded 1584), University of Cambridge; closely associated with the Puritan movement.
- "He sent me to Emanuel-College in Cambridge, at Fourteen Years old, where I resided three Years, and applyed my self close to my Studies: But the Charge of maintaining me (although I had a very scanty Allowance) being too great for a narrow Fortune; I was bound Apprentice to Mr. James Bates..." (I:1;1)
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| Engine | any mechanical device; the term is used to describe anything from a
see: "Engine And Motor: two closely-related words investigated"
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| Epping |
town in Essex, northeast of London. Gulliver's "eldest Uncle John had left me an Estate in Land, near Epping, of about Thirty Pounds a Year." (I:8;11) |
| express |
rapid messenger or the message carried |
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