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       Jonathan Swift

      A Tale of a Tub

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4057664133298

       ORIGINAL ADVERTISEMENT.

       TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN LORD SOMERS.

       THE BOOKSELLER TO THE READER.

       THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE POSTERITY.

       THE PREFACE.

       SECTION I. THE INTRODUCTION .

       SECTION II.

       SECTION III. A DIGRESSION CONCERNING CRITICS .

       SECTION IV. A TALE OF A TUB .

       SECTION V. A DIGRESSION IN THE MODERN KIND .

       SECTION VI. A TALE OF A TUB .

       SECTION VII. A DIGRESSION IN PRAISE OF DIGRESSIONS .

       SECTION VIII. A TALE OF A TUB .

       SECTION IX. A DIGRESSION CONCERNING THE ORIGINAL , THE USE , AND IMPROVEMENT OF MADNESS IN A COMMONWEALTH .

       SECTION X. A FARTHER DIGRESSION .

       SECTION XI. A TALE OF A TUB .

       THE CONCLUSION.

       THE HISTORY OF MARTIN.

       A DIGRESSION ON THE NATURE, USEFULNESS, AND NECESSITY OF WARS AND QUARRELS.

       THE HISTORY OF MARTIN— Continued .

       A PROJECT FOR THE UNIVERSAL BENEFIT OF MANKIND.

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      Treatifes writ by the fame Author, moft of them mentioned in the following Discourfes; which will be fpeedily publifhed.

      A Character of the prefent Set of Wits in this Ifland.

      A Panegyrical Effay upon the Number THREE.

      A Differtation upon the principal productions of Grub-ftreet.

      Lectures upon the Diffection of Human Nature.

      A Panegyrick upon the World.

      An Analytical Difcourfe upon Zeal, Hiftori-theo-phyfi-logically confidered.

      A general Hiftory of Ears.

      A modeft Defence of the Proceedings of the Rabble in all Ages.

      A Defcription of the Kingdom of Abfurdities.

      A Voyage into England, by a Perfon of Quality in Terra Auftralis incognita, tranflated from the Original.

      A Critical Effay upon the Art of Canting, Philofophically, Phyfically, and Mufically confidered.

       JOHN LORD SOMERS.

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      My Lord,

      Though the author has written a large Dedication, yet that being addressed to a Prince whom I am never likely to have the honour of being known to; a person, besides, as far as I can observe, not at all regarded or thought on by any of our present writers; and I being wholly free from that slavery which booksellers usually lie under to the caprices of authors, I think it a wise piece of presumption to inscribe these papers to your Lordship, and to implore your Lordship’s protection of them. God and your Lordship know their faults and their merits; for as to my own particular, I am altogether a stranger to the matter; and though everybody else should be equally ignorant, I do not fear the sale of the book at all the worse upon that score. Your Lordship’s name on the front in capital letters will at any time get off one edition: neither would I desire any other help to grow an alderman than a patent for the sole privilege of dedicating to your Lordship.

      I should now, in right of a dedicator, give your Lordship a list of your own virtues, and at the same time be very unwilling to offend your modesty; but chiefly I should celebrate your liberality towards men of great parts and small fortunes, and give you broad hints that I mean myself. And I was just going on in the usual method to peruse a hundred or two of dedications, and transcribe an abstract to be applied to your Lordship, but I was diverted by a certain accident. For upon the covers of these papers I casually observed written in large letters the two following words, DETUR DIGNISSIMO, which, for aught I knew, might contain some important meaning. But it unluckily

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