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|A Letter to a Young Lady, on her Marriage
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|The wonderful Wonder of Wonders
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|The Wonder of all the Wonders that ever the World wonder'd at
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|A Modest Proposal to the Publick, for preventing the Children of poor People in Ireland from being a Burthen to their Parents or Country, and for making them beneficial to the Publick
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|By Dr. ARBUTHNOT and Mr. POPE. … . Martinus Scriblerus his Treatise of the Art of Sinking in Poetry
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|Chap. I. INTRODUCTION
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|Chap. II. That the bathos, or profund, is the natural taste of man, and in particular of the present age.
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|Chap. VIII. Of the profund, consisting in the circumstances; and of amplicication and periphrase in general
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|Chap. IX. Of imitation, and the manner of imitating.
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|CHAP. X. Of tropes and figures: and first of the variegation, confounding, and reversing figures
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|Chap. XI. The figures continued : of the magnifying and diminishing figures
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|Chap. XII. Of expression, and the several sorts of style of the present age
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|Chap. XIII. A project for the advancement of the bathos
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|Chap. XIV. How to make dedications, panegyrics, or satyrs, and of the colours of honourable and dishonourable
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|Chap. XV. A receipt to make an epic poem
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|Chap. XVI. A project for the advancement of the stage
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|M. Scribleri virgilius Restauratus
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|Essay of the Origin of Sciences, by Mr. Pope and Dr. Parnell
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|Annus Mirabilis
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|Stradling verses Styles, a Specimen of Scriblerus's Reports
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|A Key to the Lock
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|Memoirs of P.P. Clerk of this Parish.
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|Thoughts on several Subjects
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Revision as of 12:41, 3 September 2019

Table of contents for Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift (Edinburgh: Printed for A. Donaldson and sold at his shop in London, and at Edinburgh, 1768).

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Contents

Volume I

Page Title
1 AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF THE Reverend Jonathan Swift, D. D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin.
77 VERSES, &c. referred to from the LIFE of Dr. SWIFT.
i 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. Jame's Library.
xxviii POSTSCRIPT.
1 TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN LORD SOMMERS.
11 THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY, TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE POSTERITY.
23 THE PREFACE.
43 SECT. I. THE INTRODUCTION.
64 SECT. II.
87 SECT. III. A digression concerning critics.
104 SECT. IV. A TALE OF A TUB.
126 SECT. V. A digression in the modern kind.
138 SECT. VI. A TALE OF A TUB.
151 SECT. VII. A digression in praise of digressions.
161 SECT. VIII. A TALE OF A TUB.
174 SECT. IX. A digression concerning the original, the use, and improvement of madness in a commonwealth.
199 SECT. X. A FURTHER DIGRESSION.
209 SECT. XI. A TALE OF A TUB.
233 THE CONCLUSION.
241 A FULL AND TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE FOUGHT LAST FRIDAY, BETWEEN THE ANTIENT and the MODERN BOOKS IN ST. JAMES'S LIBRARY.
243 THE BOOKSELLER TO THE READER.
245 THE PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR.
299 A DISCOURSE CONCERNING THE MECHANICAL OPERATION OF THE SPIRIT. IN A LETTER TO A FRIEND. A FRAGMENT.
300 THE Bookseller's Advertisement.
304 SECT. I.
318 SECT. II.

Volume II

Page Title
3 TRAVELS INTO Several remote Nations of the World; By LEMUEL GULLIVER, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships. In FOUR PARTS. PART I. A Voyage to LILLIPUT. PART II. A Voyage to BROBDINGNAG. …
5 THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER.
7 A LETTER FROM Captain Gulliver to his Cousin Sympson.
1 PART I. A Voyage to LILLIPUT.
1 CHAP. I. THE author gives some account of himself and family. His first inducements to travel. He is shipwrecked, and swims for his life; gets safe on shore in the country of Lilliput; is made a prisoner, …
16 CHAP. II. The emperor of Lilliput, attended by several of the nobility, comes to see the author in his confinement. The emperor's person and habit described. Learned men appointed to teach the author their …
31 CHAP. III. The author diverts the emperor and his nobility of both sexes in a very uncommon manner. The diversions of the court of Lilliput described. The author hath his liberty granted him upon certain …
42 CHAP. IV. Mildendo, the metropolis of Lilliput, described, together with the emperor's palace. A conversation between the author and a principal secretary concerning the affairs of that empire. The author's …
50 CHAP. V. The author, by an extraordinary stratagem, prevents an invasion. A high title of honour is conferred upon him. Ambassadors arrive from the emperor of Blefuscu, and sue for peace. The empress's …
59 CHAP. VI. Of the inhabitants of Lilliput; their learning, laws, and customs, the manner of educating their children. The author's way of living in that country. His vindication of a great lady.
74 CHAP. VII. The author, being informed of a design to accuse him of high-treason, maketh his escape to Blefuscu. His reception there.
86 CHAP. VIII. The author, by a lucky accident, finds means to leave Blefuscu; and, after some difficulties, returns safe to his native country.
95 PART II. A Voyage to BROBDINGNAG.
95 CHAP. I. A great storm described, the long-boat sent to fetch water, the author goes with it to discover the country. He is left on shore, is seized by one of the natives, and carried to a farmer's house. …
113 CHAP. II. A description of the farmer's daughter. The author carried to a market-town, and then to the metropolis. The particulars of his journey.
122 CHAP. III. The author sent for to court. The queen buys him of his master the farmer, and presents him to the king. He disputes with his majesty's great scholars. An apartment at court provided for the …
137 CHAP. IV. The country described. A proposal for correcting modern maps. The king's palace, and some account of the metropolis. The author's way of travelling. The chief temple described.
144 CHAP. V. Several adventures that happened to the author. The execution of a criminal. The author shews his skill in navigation.
158 CHAP. VI. Several contrivances of the author to please the king and queen. He shews his skill in music. The king enquires into the state of England, which the author relates to him. The king's observations …
171 CHAP. VII. The author's love of his country. He makes a proposal of much advantage to the king, which is rejected. The king's great ignorance in politics. The learning of that country very imperfect and …
181 CHAP. VIII. The king and queen make a progress to the frontiers. The author attends them. The manner in which he leaves the country very particularly related. He returns to England.
199 PART III. A VOYAGE TO LAPUTA, BALINBARBI, LUGGNAGG, GLUBBDUBDRIB, and JAPAN.
199 CHAP. I. The author sets out on his third voyage, is taken by pyrates. The malice of a Dutchman. His arrival at an island. He is received into Laputa.
207 CHAP. II. The humours and dispositions of the Laputians described. An account of their lèarning. Of the king, and his court. The author's reception there. The inhabitants subject to fear and disquietudes. …
219 CHAP. III. A phænomenon solved by modern philosophy and astronomy. The Laputians great improvements in the latter. The king's method of suppressing insurrections.
227 CHAP. IV. The author leaves Laputa, is conveyed to Balnibarbi, arrives at the metropolis. A description of the metropolis, and the country adjoining. The author hospitably received by a great lord. His … 263
236 CHAP. V. The author permitted to see the grand academy of Lagado. The academy largely described. The arts wherein the professors employ themselves.
247 CHAP. VI. A further account of the academy. The author proposes some improvements, which are honourably received.
255 CHAP. VII. The author leaves Lagado, arrives at Maldonada. No ship ready. He takes a short voyage to Glubbdubdrib. His reception by the governor.
262 CHAP. VIII. A further account of Glubbdubdrib. Ancient and modern history corrected.
270 CHAP. IX. The author's return to Maldonada. Sails to the kingdom of Luggnagg. The author confined. He is sent for to court. The manner of his admittance. The king's great lenity to his subjects.
276 CHAP. X. The Luggnaggians commended. A Particular description of the struldbrugs, with many conversations between the author and some eminent persons upon that subject.
289 CHAP. XI. The author leaves Luggnagg, and sails to Japan. From thence he returns in a Dutch ship to Amsterdam, and from Amsterdam to England.
295 PART IV. A Voyage to the country of the Houyhnhnms.
295 The author sets out as captain of a ship. His men conspire against him, confine him a long time to his cabbin. Set him on shore in an unknown land. He travels up into the country. The Yahoos, a strange …
305 CHAP. II. The author conducted by a Houyhnhnm to his house. The house described. The author's reception. The food of the Houyhnhnms. The author in distress for want of meat, is at last relieved. His manner …
314 CHAP. III. The author studious to learn the language; the Houyhnhnm, his master, assists in teaching him. The language described. Several Houyhnhnms of quality came out of curiosity to see the author. …
322 CHAP. IV. The Houyhnhnms notion of truth and falshood. The author's discourse disapproved by his master. The author gives a more particular account of himself, and the accidents of his voyage.
330 CHAP. V. The author, at his master's command, informs him of the state of England. The causes of war among the princes of Europe. The author begins to explain the English constitution.
340 CHAP. VI. A continuation of the state of England. The character of a first or chief minister of state in european courts.
350 CHAP. VII. The author's great love of his native country. His master's observations upon the constitution and administration of England, as described by the author, with parallel cases and comparisons. …
361 CHAP. VIII. The author relates several particulars of the yahoos. The great virtues of the Houyhnhnms. The education and exercise of their youth. Their general assembly.
370 CHAP. IX. A grand debate at the general assembly of the Houyhnhnms, and how it was determined. The learning of the Houyhnhnms. Their buildings. Their manner of burials. The defectiveness of their language.
378 CHAP. X. The author's oeconomy, and happy life, among the Houyhnhnms. His great improvement in virtue by conversing with them. Their conversations. The author hath notice given him by his master, that …
389 CHAP. XI. The author's dangerous voyage. He arrives at New-Holland, hoping to settle there. Is wounded with an arrow by one of the natives. Is seized and carried by force into a portugueze ship. The great …
401 CHAP. XII. The author's veracity. His design in publishing this work. His censure of those travellers who swerve from the truth. The author clears himself from any sinister ends in writing. An objection …

Volume III

Page Title
1 A Discourse of the contests and dissentions between the nobles and the commons in Athens and Rome; with the consequences they had upon both those States
84 The Sentiments of a church-of-England man, with respect to religion and government
137 An argument to prove, that the abolishing of christianity in England, may, as Things now stand, be attended with some inconveniencies, and perhaps not produce those many good effects proposed thereby
167 A project for the advancement of religion, and the reformation of manners
211 A letter from a member of the house of commons in Ireland, to a member of the house of commons in England, concerning the sacramental test
245 A tritical essay upon the faculties of the mind
256 Predictions for the year 1708. Wherein the month and day of the month are set down, the persons named, and the great actions and events of next year particularly related, as will come to passWriten to …
276 The accomplishment of the first of Mr. Bickerstaff's predictions; being an account of the death of Mr. Partridge the almanack-maker
282 Squire Bickerstaff detected; or, the astrological impostor convicted. By John Partridge, student in physick and astrology
296 A vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq; against what is objected to him by Mr. Partridge in his almanack for the present year 1709. By the said Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq
308 Merlin's prophecy
315 Meditation on a broom-stick
318 A proposal for correcting, improving, and ascertaining the English tongue. In a letter to the most honourable Robert earl of Oxford and Mortimer, lord high treasurer of Great-Britain
351 Some free thoughts upon the state of affairs in the year 1714
393 Thoughts on various subjects

Volume IV

Page Title
1 A Letter to a Young Clergyman lately entered into Holy Orders
40 An Essay on the Fates of Clergymen
56 An Essay on Modern Education
72 A Letter to a Young Lady, on her Marriage
93 The wonderful Wonder of Wonders
101 The Wonder of all the Wonders that ever the World wonder'd at
106 A Modest Proposal to the Publick, for preventing the Children of poor People in Ireland from being a Burthen to their Parents or Country, and for making them beneficial to the Publick
125 By Dr. ARBUTHNOT and Mr. POPE. … . Martinus Scriblerus his Treatise of the Art of Sinking in Poetry
127 Chap. I. INTRODUCTION
131 Chap. II. That the bathos, or profund, is the natural taste of man, and in particular of the present age.
133 Chap. III. The necessity of the bathos, physically considered
136 Chap. IV. That there is an art of the bathos, or profund.
136 Chap. IV. That there is an art of the bathos or profund
138 chap V. Of the true genius for the profund, and by what it is constituted
146 Chap. VI. Of the several kinds of genius in the profund, and the marks and characters of each
150 Chap. VII. Of the profund, when it consists in the thought
154 Chap. VIII. Of the profund, consisting in the circumstances; and of amplicication and periphrase in general
159 Chap. IX. Of imitation, and the manner of imitating.
164 CHAP. X. Of tropes and figures: and first of the variegation, confounding, and reversing figures
172 Chap. XI. The figures continued : of the magnifying and diminishing figures
182 Chap. XII. Of expression, and the several sorts of style of the present age
193 Chap. XIII. A project for the advancement of the bathos
198 Chap. XIV. How to make dedications, panegyrics, or satyrs, and of the colours of honourable and dishonourable
202 Chap. XV. A receipt to make an epic poem
207 Chap. XVI. A project for the advancement of the stage
217 M. Scribleri virgilius Restauratus
228 Essay of the Origin of Sciences, by Mr. Pope and Dr. Parnell
247 Annus Mirabilis
259 Stradling verses Styles, a Specimen of Scriblerus's Reports
265 A Key to the Lock
295 Memoirs of P.P. Clerk of this Parish.
313 Thoughts on several Subjects
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