Dr. SWIFT'S

LETTER

TO THE

Lord High Treafurer.

This is volume ya with

A

PROPOSAL

FOR

Correcting, Improving and Afcertaining

THE

English Tongue;

IN A

LETTER

To the Most Honourable

ROBERT

Earl of Oxford and Mortimer,

Lord High Treasurer

GREAT BRITAIN.

The Second Edition.

OF

LONDON:

Printed for BENJ. TOO KE, at the
Middle-Temple-Gate, Fleetstreet. 1712,

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ENGLISH OXFORD

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To the Moft Honourable

ROBERT

Earl of OXFORD, &c.

MY LORD,

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HAT I had the Honour. of mentioning to LORDSHIP fome time ago in Conversation, was not a new Thought, just then started by Accident or Occafion, but the Refult of long Reflection and I have been confirmed in my Sentiments by

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