THE

WORKS

OF THE

REV. JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D.

DEAN OF ST. Patrick's, dublin.

ARRANGED BY THOMAS SHERIDAŃ, A.M.

WITH

NOTES, HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL.

A NEW EDITION, IN TWENTY-FOUR VOLUMES;

CORRECTED AND REVISED BY

JOHN NICHOLS, F.S.A. EDINB. AND PERTH.

VOLUME VIII.

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LIOTHEQUE CANTONA

LAUSANNE

UNIVERSITAIRE

CONTENTS

OF THE

EIGHTH VOLUME.

A LETTER

LETTER to a young Clergyman, lately entered

into Holy Orders, 1719 20

An Essay on the Fates of Clergymen

on Modern Education

Hints toward an Essay on Conyersation

Page

1

27

37

47

A Letter of Advice to a young Poet: together

with a Proposal for the Encouragement of

Poetry in Ireland

58

A Letter to a very young Lady on her Marriage 82

A Preface to the Bishop of Sarum's Introduction

to the Third Volume of the History of the

Reformation of the Church of England. By

Gregory Miso-sarum

The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders

The Wonder of all the Wonders that ever the

World wondered at. For all persons of

quality and others ------

MISCELLANEOUS PERIODICAL PAPERS.

*Tatlers

*Spectators

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95

134

141

*Guardian, No. 96.-An Essay on National Re-

wards; 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 discovered that the "famous speak-
ing 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 language." His advertisements oc-
cur in the newspapers of 1710. N.