Select Works of Jonathan Swift - Softcover

Swift, Jonathan

9780217046305: Select Works of Jonathan Swift

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0217046304 ISBN 13: 9780217046305

Publisher: General Books LLC, 2012

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1891 Excerpt: ... A TALE OF A TUB. WRITTEN FOR THE UNIVERSAL IMPROVEMENT OF MANKIND. Diu multumque desideratum. TO WHICH IS ADDED, AN ACCOUNT OF A BATTLE BETWEEN THE ANCIENT AND MODERN BOOKS IN ST. JAMES'S LIBRARY. Br.sima eacabasa eanaa irraurista, diarba da caeotaba fobor camelamhi. Iren. Lib. i. C. I.-Juvatque novos decerpcre flores, Insignemque meo capiti petere inde coronam, Unde prius nulli velarunt tempera Musoc.--Lucret. Treatises writ by the same Author, most of than mentioned in the following discourses; which will be speedily published. A Character Of The Present Set Of Wits In This Island. A Panegyrical Essay Upon The Number Three. A Dissertation Upon The Principal Productions Of Grub Street. Lectures Upon A Dissection Of Human Nature. A Panegyric Upon The World. An Analytical Discourse Upom Zeal, Histori-theo-physiLogically Considered. A General History Of Ears. A Modest Defence Of The Proceedings Of The Rabble In All Ages. A Description Of The Kingdom Of Absurdities. A Voyage Into England, By A Person Of Quality In Terra AUSTRALIS INCOGNITA, TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL. A Critical Essay Upon The Art Of Canting, Philosophi CAU.Y, PHYSICALLY, AND MUSICALLY CONSIDERED. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN LORD SOMMERS. My Lord, 'HPHOUGH the author has written a large dedication, yet that beir. JL addressed to a prince, whom I am never likely to have the honour of being known to; a person, besides, as far as I can observe, not at all regarded, or thought on by any of our present writers; and, I being wholly free from that slavery, which booksellers usually lie under, to the caprices of authors; I think it a wise piece of presumption to inscribe these papers to your lordship, and to implore your lordship's protection of them. God and your lordship know their faults and the...

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