WORKS

OF THE

REV. JONATHAN SWIFT, D. D.

DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S, DUBLIN.

ARRANGED BY

THOMAS SHERIDAN, A. M.

WITH

NOTES, HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL

A NEW EDITION, IN TWENTY-FOUR VOLUMES,

CORRECTED AND REVISED

BY JOHN NICHOLS, F. A. S.

EDINBURGH AND PERTH.

VOLUME VIIE

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM DURELL AND CO.

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C. S. VAN WINKLE, PRINTER, Water-street, New-York.

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CONTENTS

OF

THE EIGHTH VOLUME.

LA LETTER to a young Clergyman, lately entered into Holy Or

A Letter of Advice to a young Poet: together with a Proposal

for the Encouragement of Poetry in Ireland,

A Letter to a very young Lady, on her Marriagé,

A Preface to the Bishop of Sarum's Introduction to the Third

Volume of the History of the Reformation of the Church

The Wonder of all the Wonders that ever the World wonder-

ed at. For all persons of quality and others,

141

* Guardian, No. 96.-An Essay on National Rewards; being

a Proposal for bestowing them on a Plan more durable

and respectable,

223

Since the note in p. 170 of this volume was printed, I have dis-
covered that the "famous speaking Doctor," there ridiculed by
Swift, was James Ford, who professed "the art of curing stammer-
ing, and removing other impediments in the speech;" and taught
foreigners the pronunciation of the English anguage,
vertisements occur in the newspapers of 1710. N.

His ad