THE

W O R K S

OF THE

REV. JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D.,

DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S, DUBLIN.

ARRANGED BY THOMAS SHERIDAN, A. M.

WITH

NOTES, HISTORICAL AND CRÍTICAL.

A NEW EDITION, IN NINETEEN YOLUMES;

CORRECTED AND REVISED

BY JOHN NICHOLS, F. S. A. EDINBURGH AND PERTH

VOLUME II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, J. NICHOLS, R. BALDWIN, OTRIDGE

AND SON, J. SEWELL, F. AND C. RIVINGTON, T. PAYNE, R.
FAULDER, G. AND J, ROBINSON, R.LEA, J. NUNN, W.CUTHELL,
"T, EGERTON, CLARKE AND SON, VERNOR AND HOOD, J.
SCATCHERD, T. KAY, LACKINGTON ALLEN AND CO., CAR-
PENTER AND CO., MURRAY AND HIGHLEY, LONGMAN AND
REES, CADELL JUN, AND DAVIES, T. BAGSTER, J. HARDING,
AND J. MAWMAN..

1801.

CONTENTS

OF THE

SECOND VOLUME.

Page

GENERAL Preface.

i

NII

xi

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A Tale of a Tub, &c.

Advertisement ..

Analytical Table ..

The Author's Apology

Postscript.

Treatises written by the same Author, which will be speedily

published.

Dedication .....

The Bookseller to the Reader

The Epistle Dedicatory

The Preface ....

Sect. I. The Introduction

II. Tale of a Tub....

III. A Digression concerning Criticks

IV. The Tale continued ...

V. A Digression in the Modern Kind

VI. The Tale continued ....

VII. A Digression in Praise of Digressions .

VIII. The Tale continued ....

IX. A Digression concerning Madness

X. A farther Digression .

XI. The Tale continued

The Conclusion ....

The Battle of the Books...

The Bookseller to the Reader .

The Preface of the Author .

A full and true Account of the Battle, &c. ....

A Discourse concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit.

A Fragment ..

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