THE

WORKS

O F

Dr. JONATHAN SWIFT,
Dean of St. Patrick's Dublin.

VOL. III.

CONSISTING OF

MISCELLANIES

In Profe.

LONDON:

Printed for C. BATHURST in Fleet-ftreet.

MDCCLXV.

Of the THIRD VOLUME.

PREFACE by Dr. Swift and Mr. Pope.

By Dr. SW1FT.

A Difcourfe of the contefts and diffentions be-

tween the nobles and the commons in Athens

and Rome; with the confequences they had

upon thofe States
p. 9

The fentiments of a church-of-England man,

with respect to religion and government p. 73.

An argument to prove, that the abolishing of

cbriftianity in England may, as things now

fland, be attended with fome inconveniencies,

and perhaps not produce thofe many good

effects propofed thereby

A project for the advancement of religion, and

the reformation of manners

P. 111

p. 132

A letter from a member of the house of commons

in Ireland, to a member of the house of com-

mons in England, concerning the facramen-

tal teft
P. 164

A tritical effay upon the faculties of the mind.

P. 190

Predictions for the year 1708. Wherein the month

and day of the month are fet down, the per-

fons named, and the great actions and events

of the year particularly related, as will come

to pass. Written to prevent the people of

England from being farther impofed on by vul-

.gar

CONTENTS.

gar almanack makers. By Ifaac Bickerstaff,

efqi
P. 198

The accomplishment of the firft of Mr. Bicker-

ftaff's predictions; being an account of the

death of Mr. Partridge the almanack-maker

P. 213

Squire Bickerstaff detected; or, the afrolo-

gical impoftor convicted. By John Partridge,

fudent in phyfic and afrology

P. 218

A vindication of Ifaac Bickerstaff, efq; against

what is objected to him by Mr. Partridge in

bis almanack for the prefent year 1709. By

the faid Ifaac Bickerstaff, efq;

P. 243

Merlin's prophecy

Meditation on a broomflick

A propofal for correcting, improving, and af

certaining the English tongue. In a letter

to the most honourable Robert earl of Oxford

and Mortimer, lord high treasurer of Great

Britain
P. 226

Some free thoughts upon the fate of affairs in the

p. 272

P. 303

year 1714

Thoughts on various fubjects

p. 229

P. 238

This is the only piece in this volume which
was not written by Dr. Swift.

PREFACE

HE Papers that compofe the first of thefe

years ago, to which there are now added two or three fmall tracts; and the verfes are tranfferred into the fourth volume apart, with the addition of fuch others as we fince have written. The fecond and third will confift of feveral small treatifes in profe, in which a friend or two is concerned with us.

Having both of us been extremely ill treated by fome bookfellers, especially one Edmund Curll, it was our 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 importunity, and divulged by the indifcretion of friends, although restrained by promises, which few of them are ever known to obferve, and often think they make us a compliment in breaking.

But the confequences have been still worse : We have been intitled, and have had our names prefixed at length, to whole volumes of mean productions, equally offenfive to good manners and good fenfe, which we never faw nor heard of till they appeared in print.

For a forgery in fetting a falfe name to a writing, which may prejudice another's for

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