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AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF THE Reverend Jonathan Swift, D. D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin.
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VERSES, &c. referred to from the LIFE of Dr. SWIFT.
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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.
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TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN LORD SOMMERS.
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THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY, TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE POSTERITY.
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THE PREFACE.
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SECT. I. THE INTRODUCTION.
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SECT. II.
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SECT. III. A digression concerning critics.
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SECT. IV. A TALE OF A TUB.
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SECT. V. A digression in the modern kind.
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SECT. VI. A TALE OF A TUB.
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SECT. VII. A digression in praise of digressions.
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SECT. VIII. A TALE OF A TUB.
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SECT. IX. A digression concerning the original, the use, and improvement of madness in a commonwealth.
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SECT. X. A FURTHER DIGRESSION.
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SECT. XI. A TALE OF A TUB.
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THE CONCLUSION.
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A FULL AND TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE FOUGHT LAST FRIDAY, BETWEEN THE ANTIENT and the MODERN BOOKS IN ST. JAMES'S LIBRARY.
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THE BOOKSELLER TO THE READER.
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THE PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR.
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A DISCOURSE CONCERNING THE MECHANICAL OPERATION OF THE SPIRIT. IN A LETTER TO A FRIEND. A FRAGMENT.
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THE Bookseller's Advertisement.
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SECT. I.
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SECT. II.
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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. …
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THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER.
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A LETTER FROM Captain Gulliver to his Cousin Sympson.
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PART I. A Voyage to LILLIPUT.
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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, …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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CHAP. VII. The author, being informed of a design to accuse him of high-treason, maketh his escape to Blefuscu. His reception there.
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CHAP. VIII. The author, by a lucky accident, finds means to leave Blefuscu; and, after some difficulties, returns safe to his native country.
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PART II. A Voyage to BROBDINGNAG.
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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. …
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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CHAP. V. Several adventures that happened to the author. The execution of a criminal. The author shews his skill in navigation.
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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PART III. A VOYAGE TO LAPUTA, BALINBARBI, LUGGNAGG, GLUBBDUBDRIB, and JAPAN.
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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.
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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. …
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CHAP. III. A phænomenon solved by modern philosophy and astronomy. The Laputians great improvements in the latter. The king's method of suppressing insurrections.
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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
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CHAP. V. The author permitted to see the grand academy of Lagado. The academy largely described. The arts wherein the professors employ themselves.
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CHAP. VI. A further account of the academy. The author proposes some improvements, which are honourably received.
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CHAP. VII. The author leaves Lagado, arrives at Maldonada. No ship ready. He takes a short voyage to Glubbdubdrib. His reception by the governor.
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CHAP. VIII. A further account of Glubbdubdrib. Ancient and modern history corrected.
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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.
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CHAP. X. The Luggnaggians commended. A Particular description of the struldbrugs, with many conversations between the author and some eminent persons upon that subject.
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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.
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PART IV. A Voyage to the country of the Houyhnhnms.
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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 …
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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 …
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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. …
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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.
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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.
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CHAP. VI. A continuation of the state of England. The character of a first or chief minister of state in european courts.
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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. …
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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
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The Sentiments of a church-of-England man, with respect to religion and government
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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
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A project for the advancement of religion, and the reformation of manners
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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
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A tritical essay upon the faculties of the mind
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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 …
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The accomplishment of the first of Mr. Bickerstaff's predictions; being an account of the death of Mr. Partridge the almanack-maker
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Squire Bickerstaff detected; or, the astrological impostor convicted. By John Partridge, student in physick and astrology
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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
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Merlin's prophecy
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Meditation on a broom-stick
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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
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Some free thoughts upon the state of affairs in the year 1714
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Thoughts on various subjects
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A Letter to a Young Clergyman lately entered into Holy Orders
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An Essay on the Fates of Clergymen
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An Essay on Modern Education
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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. III. The necessity of the bathos, physically considered
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Chap. IV. That there is an art of the bathos, or profund.
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Chap. IV. That there is an art of the bathos or profund
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chap V. Of the true genius for the profund, and by what it is constituted
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Chap. VI. Of the several kinds of genius in the profund, and the marks and characters of each
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Chap. VII. Of the profund, when it consists in the thought
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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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By Dr. ARBUTHNOT. LAW is a bottomless pit, or the history of John Bull
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CHAP. I. The occasion of the law-suit.
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Chap. II. How Bull and Frog grew jealous that the lord Strutt intended to give all his custom to his grandfather Lewis baboon.
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Chap. III. A copy of Bull and Frog's letter to lord Strutt.
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Chap. IV. How Bull and Frog's went to law with lord strutt about the premises, and were joined by the rest of the tradesmen.
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Chap. V. The true characters of John bull, Nic. Frog, and Hocus.
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Chap. VI. Of the various success of the law-suit.
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Chap. VII. How John Bull was so mightily pleased with the success, that he was going to leave off his trade, and turn lawyer.
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Chap. VIII. How John discovered, that Hocus had an intrigue with his wife, and what followed thereupon.
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Chap. IX. How some quacks undertook to cure Mrs. Bull of her ulcer.
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Chap. X. Of John Bull's second wife, and the good advice that she gave him.
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Chap. XI. How John looked over his attorney's bill.
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Chap. XII. How John grew angry, and resolved to accept a composition, and what methods were practised by the lawyers for keeping him from it.
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Chap. XIII. Mrs. Bull's vindication of the indisepsable duty of Cuckoldom, incumbent upon wives, in case of the tyranny, infidelity, or insufficiency of husbands: being a full answer to the Doctor's sermon …
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Chap. XIV. The two great parties of wives, the Devotos and the Hitts.
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Chap. XV. An account of the conference between Mrs. Bull and Don Diego.
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Chap. XVI. How the guardians of the deceased Mrs. Bull's three daughters came to John, and what advice they gave him; wherein is briefly treated the character of the three daughters: also John Bull's answer …
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Chap. XVII. Esquire South's message and letter to Mrs. Bull.
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The history of John Bull, Part II.
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PART II.
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Chap. I. The character of John Bull's mother.
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Chap. II. The character of John Bull's sister Peg with the quarrels that happened between master and miss, in their childhood.
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Chap. III. Jack's charms, or the method by which he gained Peg's heart.
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Chap. IV. How the relations reconciled John and his sister Peg, and what return Peg made to John's message.
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Chap. V. Of some quarrels that happened after Peg was taken into the family.
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Chap. VI. The conversation between John Bull and his wife.
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Chap. VII. Of the hard shifts Mrs. Bull was put to, to preserve the manor of Bullock's Hatch; with sir Roger's method to keep off importunate duns.
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Chap. VIII. A continuation of the conversation betwixt John Bull and his wife.
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Chap. IX. A copy of Nic. Frog's letter to John Bull.
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Chap. X. Of some extraordinary things that passed at the Salutation tavern in the conference between Bull, Frog, esqire South, and Lewis Baboon.
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Chap. XI. The apprehending, examination, and imprisonment of Jack, for suspicion of poisoning.
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Chap. XII. How Jack's friends came to visit him in prison, and what advice they gave him.
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Chap. XIII. How Jack hanged himself up by the persuasion of his friends, who broke their word, and left his neck in the noose.
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Chap. XIV. The conference between Don Diego and John Bull.
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Chap. XV. The sequel of the meeting at the Salutation.
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Chap. XVI. How John Bull and Nic. Frog settled their accompts.
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Chap. XVII. How John Bull found all his family in an uproar at home.
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Chap. XVIII. How Lewis Baboon came to visit John Bull, and what passed between them.
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Chap. XIX. Nic. Frog's letter to John Bull; wherein he endeavours to vindicate all his conduct with relation to John Bull and the lawsuit.
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Chap. XX. The discourse that passed between Nic. Frog and esquire South, which John Bull overheard.
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Chap. XXI. The rest of Nic's fetches to keep John out of Ecclesdown-Castle.
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Chap. XXII. Of the great joy that John expressed when he got possession of Ecclesdown.
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POSTSCRIPT.
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The art of political lying
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Reasons offered by the company of upholders against part of the bill for viewing and examining drugs and medicines
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The petition of the colliers, cooks, blacksmiths, etc. against catoptrical victuallers
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It cannot rain but it pours: or London strewed with rarities
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By Mr. POPE and Mr. GAY. Dr. Robert Norris's narrative of the strange and deplorable frenzy of Mr. JOHN Dennis
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An account of the poisoning of Edmund Curll, with a copy of his last will and testament
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A further account of the condition of Edmund Curll
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A relation of the circumcision of Edmund Curll
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God's revenge against punning
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A prophecy of the Mohocks
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The Country-post
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A true and faithful narrative of what passed in London, or a rumour of the day of judgment
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