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Jonathan Swift
politics of the
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collected edition of the prose works of Swift.... So far as one may judge
from a first instalment, the present edition seems to fulfil the
requirements of popularity and accuracy as well as could be desired....
The edition promises to be one of the most valuable and welcome items
in those classic 'Libraries' which have done so much to bring good
literature, in worthy form, within the reach of the British
public."--Glasgow Herald.
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'The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift.' No better edition of it could be
desired. Mr. Temple Scott is editing the volumes with the greatest
care."--Belfast News Letter.
"No more welcome reprint has appeared for some time past than the
new edition, complete and exact so far as it was possible to make it, of
Swift's 'Journal to Stella.'"--Morning Post.
"By far the most satisfactory text yet printed of the wonderful 'Journal
to Stella.'"--Newcastle Daily Chronicle.
"The 'Journal to Stella' has long stood in need of editing, far more than
any other of Swift's works. It abounds in references to persons great
and small, to political and social 'occurrents,' to ephemeral publications;
and to identify and explain all these demands an editor steeped in the
history, literature, broadsides and press news of the time of the Harley
administration. Mr. Ryland's present edition will satisfy all but the few
who dream of an ideal."--Athenæum.
"The immortal 'Journal to Stella,' one of the works most indispensable
to a knowledge of the life and literature of the early part of the
eighteenth century. We know of no shape in which the Journal is
published so convenient for perusal as this. The notes are short and
serviceable, and there is a full index."--Notes and Queries.
"At last we have a well-printed, carefully edited text of Swift's famous
Journal in a single, handy, and cheap volume. The present edition will,
we hope, encourage many timid souls, who have been awed by the
formidable array of Scott, Sheridan, or Hawkesworth's editions, to
make the acquaintance of the most interesting, charming, and tender
journal that ever man kept for a woman's eye."--St. James's Gazette.
"Mr. Dennis is quite justified in his boast of now first giving us a
complete and trustworthy text [of 'Gulliver's Travels']."--Manchester
Guardian.
"The number of useless reprints of Gulliver, based on Hawkesworth's
untrustworthy edition, and mostly expurgated besides, is so great that

we owe double thanks to Mr. Dennis, since he has not shirked the
trouble of collating the five earliest editions, and has given us again at
last--as far as is possible in the present case--the complete and authentic
text of the original."--PROF. MAX FÖRSTER in Anglia.
"An ideal text of 'Gulliver's Travels.'"--Literary World.
"The best and most scholarly edition of 'Gulliver's
Travels.'"--University Correspondent.
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[Illustration: Jonathan Swift
_From an engraving by Andrew Miller after the painting by Francis
Bindon in the Deanery of St. Patrick's Dublin._]

THE PROSE WORKS
OF
JONATHAN SWIFT, D. D.
EDITED BY
TEMPLE SCOTT.
VOL. VII
HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL TRACTS--IRISH
LONDON GEORGE BELL AND SONS 1905 CHISWICK PRESS.
CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO. TOOKS COURT,
CHANCERY LANE, LONDON.

INTRODUCTION
Swift took up his permanent residence in the Irish capital in 1714. The
Harley Administration had fallen never to rise again. Harley himself
was a prisoner in the Tower, and Bolingbroke a voluntary exile in
France, and an open adherent of the Pretender. Swift came to Dublin to
be met by the jeers of the populace, the suspicion of the government
officials, and the polite indifference of his clerical colleagues. He had
time enough now in which to reflect and employ his brain powers.
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