THE WORKS O F Dr. JONATHAN SWIFT, VOL. III. CONSISTING OF MISCELLANIES In Profe. LONDON: Printed for C. BATHURST in Fleet-ftreet. MDCCLXV. Of the THIRD VOLUME. PREFACE by Dr. Swift and Mr. Pope. By Dr. SWIFT. A Difcourfe of the contefts and diffentions be tween the nobles and the commons in Athens and Rome; with the confequences they had The fentiments of a church-of-England mans with refpect to religion and government p. 73. An argument to prove, that the abolishing of chriftianity in England may, as things now fland, be attended with fome inconveniencies, P. HI A project for the advancement of religion, and the reformation of manners A letter from a member of the house of commons in Ireland, to a member of the house of com- mons in England, concerning the facramen- A tritical effay upon the faculties of the mind Predictions for the year 1708. Wherein the month and day of the month are fet down, the per- fons named, and the great actions and events of the year particularly related, as will come gar almanack makers. By Ifaac Bickerstaff, The accomplishment of the firft of Mr. Bicker- ftaff's predictions; being an account of the Squire Bickerstaff detected; or, the afrolo- gical impoftor convicted. By John Partridge, fudent in phyfic and aftrology A vindication of Ifaac Bickerstaff, efq; against what is objected to him by Mr. Partridge in bis almanack for the prefent year 1709. By A propofal for correcting, improving, and af- certaining the English tongue. In a letter to the most honourable Robert earl of Oxford and Mortimer, lord high treasurer of Great Britain This is the only piece in this volume which was not written by Dr. Swift. PREFACE THE HE Papers that compofe the first of these volumes were printed about eighteen years ago, to which there are now added two or three fmall tracts; and the verfes are tranfferred into the fourth volume apart, with the addition of fuch others as we fince have written. The fecond and third will confift of feveral small treatises in profe, in which a friend or two is concerned with us. Having both of us been extremely ill treated by fome booksellers, especially one Edmund Curll, it was our opinion that the best method we could take for justifying ourselves, would be to publish whatever loofe papers, in profe and verfe, we have formerly written; not only fuch as have already ftolen into the world (very much to our regret, and perhaps very little to our credit) but fuch, as in any probability hereafter may run the fame fate; having been obtained from us by the importunity, and divulged by the indifcretion of friends, although restrained by promises, which few of them are ever known to observe, and often think they make us a compliment in breaking. But the confequences have been ftill worfe We have been intitled, and have had our names prefixed at length, to whole volumes of mean productions, equally offenfive to good manners and good fenfe, which we never faw nor heard of till they appeared in print. For a forgery in fetting a falfe name to a writing, which may prejudice another's fortune; B |