Of the THIRD VOLUME. PREFACE by Dr. Swift and Mr. Pope. A Difcourfe of the contefts and diffentions between the nobles and the commons in Athens and Rome; with the confequences they had upon both those States The fentiments of a church-of-England man, with refpect to religion and government An argument to prove, that the abolishing of chrif- tianity in England, may, as Things now ftand, be attended with fome inconveniencies, and per- haps not produce thofe many good effects propofed A project for the advancement of religion, and the reformation of manners: A letter from a member of the house of commons in Ireland, to a member of the house of commons in England, concerning the facramental teft p. 211 A tritical effay upon the faculties of the mind P. 245 Predictions for the year 1708. Wherein the month and day of the month are fet down, the perfons named, and the great actions and events of next year particularly related, as will come to pass. Written to prevent the people of England from being farther impofed on by vulgar almanack- predictions; being an account of the death of Mr. Partridge the almanack-maker *'Squire Bickerstaff detected; or, the aftrological impoftor convicted. By John Partridge, ftudent A vindication of Ifaac Bickerftaff, efq; against what is objected to him by Mr. Partridge in his alma- nack for the prefent year 1709. By the faid A propofal for correcting, improving, and afcertain- ing the English tongue. In a letter to the most bonourable Robert earl of Oxford and Mortimer, lord high treasurer of Great-Britain P. 318 *This is the only piece in this volume which was not written PREFACE. THE Papers that compose the first of these volumes were printed about eighteen years ago, to which there are now added two or three fmall tracts; and the verfes are transferred into the fourth volume apart, with the addition of fuch others as we fince have written. The fecond and third will confift of feveral fmall treatifes in profe, in which a friend or two is concerned with us. Having both of us been extremely ill treated by fome bookfellers, efpecially one Edmund Curll, it was cur opinion that the best method we could take for justifying ourselves, would be to publish whatever loofe papers, in profe and verfe, we have formerly written; not only fuch as have already ftolen into the world (very much to our regret, and perhaps very little to our credit) but fuch, as in any probability hereafter may run the fame fate; having been obtained from us by the inportunity, and divulged by the indifcretion of friends, although reftrained by promifes, which few of them are ever known VOL. III. b to to obferve, and often think they make us a compliment in breaking. But the confequences have been still worfe: We have been entitled, and have had our names prefixed at length, to whole volumes of mean productions, equally of fenfive to good manners and good fense, which we never faw nor heard of till they appeared in print. For a forgery in fetting a false name to a writing, which may prejudice another's fortune, the law punishes the offender with the lofs of his ears; but has inflicted no adequate penalty for fuch, as prejudice another's reputation in doing the fame thing in print; though all and every individual book, fo fold under a falfe name, are manifeftly so many feveral and multiplied forgeries. Indeed we hoped, that the good nature, or at least the good judgment of the world, would have cleared us from the impuration of such things, as had been thus charged upon us by the malice of enemies, the want of judgment in friends, the unconcern of indifferent perfons, and the confident affertions of bookfellers. We |
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