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1 Their notions relating to the duties of parents and children differ extremely from ours.
Gulliver's Travels 1By Jonathan Swift ContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VI.
2 I was able to invent names for my parents, whom I pretended to be obscure people in the province of Gelderland.
Gulliver's Travels 2By Jonathan Swift ContextHighlight In PART 3: CHAPTER XI.
3 And when I began to consider that, by copulating with one of the Yahoo species I had become a parent of more, it struck me with the utmost shame, confusion, and horror.
Gulliver's Travels 2By Jonathan Swift ContextHighlight In PART 4: CHAPTER XI.
4 They have certain professors well skilled in preparing children for such a condition of life as befits the rank of their parents, and their own capacities, as well as inclinations.
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5 The young couple meet, and are joined, merely because it is the determination of their parents and friends; it is what they see done every day, and they look upon it as one of the necessary actions of a reasonable being.
Gulliver's Travels 2By Jonathan Swift ContextHighlight In PART 4: CHAPTER VIII.
6 When the girls are twelve years old, which among them is the marriageable age, their parents or guardians take them home, with great expressions of gratitude to the professors, and seldom without tears of the young lady and her companions.
Gulliver's Travels 1By Jonathan Swift ContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VI.
7 The meaner families who have children at these nurseries, are obliged, besides their annual pension, which is as low as possible, to return to the steward of the nursery a small monthly share of their gettings, to be a portion for the child; and therefore all parents are limited in their expenses by the law.
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8 Their parents are suffered to see them only twice a year; the visit is to last but an hour; they are allowed to kiss the child at meeting and parting; but a professor, who always stands by on those occasions, will not suffer them to whisper, or use any fondling expressions, or bring any presents of toys, sweetmeats, and the like.
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