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Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote
Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote

Chapter XXXVII · Chapter 37

Chapter 37 of Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote is here in full — 60 sentences across 12 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

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The author’s economy, and happy life among the Houyhnhnms.
His great improvement in virtue by conversing with them.
Their conversations.
The author has notice given him by his master, that he must depart from the country.
He falls into a swoon for grief; but submits.
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Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote

Chapter XXXVII · Chapter 37

Chapter 37 of Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote is here in full — 60 sentences across 12 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/12 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

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The author’s economy, and happy life among the Houyhnhnms.
Line 2
His great improvement in virtue by conversing with them.
Line 3
Their conversations.
Line 4
The author has notice given him by his master, that he must depart from the country.
Line 5
He falls into a swoon for grief; but submits.

Learner Dictionary

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Virtue noun US /ˈvɝː.tʃuː/

Moral excellence and goodness of character; the highest human attainment in Stoic philosophy.

From this reading “His great improvement in virtue by conversing with them.”

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a

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From this reading He falls into a swoon for grief; but submits.

among

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From this reading The author’s economy, and happy life among the Houyhnhnms.

and

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From this reading The author’s economy, and happy life among the Houyhnhnms.

author

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author's

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but

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From this reading He falls into a swoon for grief; but submits.

by

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From this reading His great improvement in virtue by conversing with them.

conversations

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From this reading Their conversations.

conversing

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From this reading His great improvement in virtue by conversing with them.

country

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depart

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economy

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From this reading The author’s economy, and happy life among the Houyhnhnms.

falls

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for

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from

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given

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great

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From this reading His great improvement in virtue by conversing with them.

grief

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From this reading He falls into a swoon for grief; but submits.

happy

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From this reading The author’s economy, and happy life among the Houyhnhnms.

has

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he

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him

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His

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From this reading His great improvement in virtue by conversing with them.

Houyhnhnms

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improvement

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From this reading His great improvement in virtue by conversing with them.

in

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From this reading His great improvement in virtue by conversing with them.

into

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From this reading He falls into a swoon for grief; but submits.

life

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From this reading The author’s economy, and happy life among the Houyhnhnms.

master

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must

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notice

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submits

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From this reading He falls into a swoon for grief; but submits.

swoon

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that

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The

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Their

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From this reading Their conversations.

them

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From this reading His great improvement in virtue by conversing with them.

virtuenounUS /ˈvɝː.tʃuː/

Moral excellence and goodness of character; the highest human attainment in Stoic philosophy.

From this reading His great improvement in virtue by conversing with them.

with

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From this reading His great improvement in virtue by conversing with them.

Chapter 37 of Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote by Jonathan Swift holds 60 sentences, grouped into 12 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

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Chapter 37 holds 60 sentences of Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote, unabridged, divided into 12 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 37 of Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote by Jonathan Swift exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 60 sentences, grouped into 12 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.

How do I study chapter 37 of Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote?

Work through the 12 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

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