Dr. SWIFT'S

LETTER

TO THE

Lord High Treasurer.

This is volume youth

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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 Treafurer

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GREAT BRITAIN.

The Second Edition.

LONDON:

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

ENGLISH

XTORD

To the Moft Honourable

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ROBERT

Earl of OXFORD, &c.

MY LORD,

HAT I had the Honour. of mentioning to Your 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

the