THE WORKS OP JONATHAN SWIFT, D. D. DEAN OF ST PATRICK'S, DUBLIN; CONTAINING ADDITIONAL LETTERS, TRACTS, AND POEMS, NOT HITHERTO PUBLISHED; WITH NOTES, AND A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, BY WALTER SCOTT, ESQ. VOLUME XI. EDINBURGH: LONDON ; AND JOHN CUMMING, DUBLIN. 1814. CONTENTS VOLUME ELEVENTH. Page Dedication to the Right Hon. John Lord Somers, The Epistle Dedicatory to Prince Posterity, Sketch of Continuation of a Tale of a Tub, A Project for the Universal Benefit of Mankind, An account of the Battle fought between the Ancient and the Modern Books in St James's Library, tion in several Dialogues, Dialogue 1st, 2d, 3d, 333. 335 387 419 () ANALYTICAL TABLE. The Author's Apology. The Tale approved of by a great majority among the men of taste. Some treatises written expressly against it; but not one syllable in its defence. The greatest part of it finished in 1696, eight years before it was published. The author's intention when he began it. No irreligious or immoral opinion can fairly be deduced from the book. The clergy have no reason to dislike it. The author's intention not having met with a candid interpretation, he declined engaging in a task he had proposed to himself, of examining some publications, that were intended against all religion. Unfair to fix a name upon an author, who had so industriously concealed himself. The Letter on Enthusiasm, * ascribed by several to the same author. If the abuses in law or physic had been the subject of this treatise, the learned professors in either faculty would have been more * This celebrated Letter, which was generally supposed to have been written by Dr Swift; and by him, with as little foundation, ascribed to his friend colonel Hunter; was the produce lion of the noble author of the “ Characteristics;" in which collection it holds the foremost rank. It bears date in September, 1707 ; and was written with a view to the French prophets, whose enthusiastic extravagances were then at the greatest height. VOL. XI. A |