lowing are felected from Gulliver's Travels, because the correction of this part of the work, efpecially with refpect to dates and numbers, is boafted in an advertisement prefixed, and because being divided into chapters, the places referred to will be more easily found,

In the following fentence, they have, is fubftituted for he hath:

"Whoever makes ill returns to his "benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of mankind, from whom THEY HAVE received no obligations."

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Voyage to Lilliput, Chap. VI. The children of the Lilliputians are faid to be apprenticed at leven years of age inftead of cleven, which is evidently wrong, as the author fuppofes the age of fifteen with them, to answer that of one and twenty with us, a proportion which will be nearly kept by fuppofing them to be apprenticed at eleven, and to ferve five years. Ibid.

Gulliver fays, that he arrived in the Downs from Lilliput, on the 13th of April, 1702, and that he took hipping gain on the 20th of June following, two

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annths after his return; but in the Irish edition, though the fame dates are preferved, we are told, that ten months after bis return he took shipping, &c. Compare the last chapter of Part I, with the first chapter of Part II.

In the following fentence, bring is subfituted for carry :

"A gentleman-ufher came from court commanding my master to BRING me thither; but as thither fignifies to that place, to bring thither is falfe English.

Voyage to Brobdingnag, Chap. III. By putting the word born for both, Gulliver is reprefented as fhewing how the British nobility are qualified to be born councellors to the king and kingdom; or in other words, defcribing a part of their education antecedent to their birth. And though it is true that the English nobility are councellors to the king and kingdom by right of birth, yet it is not true that they are born councellors. Ibid. Chap. VI.

It appears by many passages, that the ftature of the Brobdingnagians was to that of Gulliver, nearly as ten to one, and this proportion is kept in other things;

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Many other pieces both in profe and verfe, which had been written between the years 1691, and 1727, were then collected and published by the Dean in conjunction with Mr. Pope, Dr. Arbuthnot, and Mr. Gay, under the title of Mifcellanies*; of all these pieces, though they were intended to go down to pofterity together t, the dean was not the author, as appeared by the title pages, but they continued undistinguished till 1742, and then Mr. Pope, having new claffed them, afcribed each performance among the profe to its particular author in a table of contents, but of the verses he diftinguished only the Dean's, by marking the rest with an afterisk.

In the year 1735, the pieces of which the Dean was the author, were felected from the miscellany, and with Gulliver's Travels, the Drapier's Letters, and fosne other pieces which were written upon particular occafions in Ireland, were published by George Falkener, at Dublin, in four volumes; to thefe he afterwards added a fifth and a

fixth, containing the Examiners, polite Converfation, and fome other tracts, which were foon followed by a seventh volume of letters, and an eighth of pofthumous pieces.

In this collection, although printed in Ireland, the tracts relating to that country, and in particular the Drapier's Letters, are thrown together in great confufion, and the Tale of a Tub, the Battle of the Books, and the Fragment, are not included.

In the edition which is now offered to the publick, the Tale of a Tub, of which the Dean's corrections fufficiently prove him to have been the author, the Battle of the Books, and the Fragment, make the first volume; the fecond is Gulliver's Travels ; the Mifcellanies will be found in the third, fourth, fifth, and fixth; and the contents of the other volumes are divided into two claffes, as relating to England or Ireland; as to the arrangement of particular pieces in each clafs, there were only three things that feemed to deferve attention, or that could direct the choice; that the verse and profe Should be kept feparate; that the pofthumous and doubtful pieces fhould not be mingled with thofe which the Dean is known to have

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publifhed himself; and that those tracts which are parts of a regular feries, and illustrate each other, should be ranged in fucceffion without the intervention of other matter: Such are the Drapier's Letters, and fome other papers published upon the fame occafion, which have not only in the Irish edition, but in every other, been fo mixed as to mifreprefent fome facts and obfcure others: Such alfo are the tracts on the Sacramental Teft, which are now first put together in regular order, as they should always be read, by those who would fee their whole ftrength and propriety.

As to the pieces which have no connexion with each other, fome have thought that the ferious and the comic fhould have been put in feparate claffes; but this is not the method which was taken by the Dean himself, or by Mr. Pope when they published the mifcellany, in which the tranfition From grave to gay, from lively to fevere, appears frequently to be the effect rather of choice than accident*. However, as the

Our mifcellany is now quite printed, I am prodigiouly pleafed with this joint volume in which methinks we

look like friends fide by fide, ferious and merry by turns-diverting others juft as we di verted outfives.

Letter of Pope to Swift, March 8, 1*06 7. reader