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Swift, Jonathan:
The works of Dr Jonathan Swift, dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. Accurately corrected by the best editions. With the author's life and character; notes historical, critical, and explanatory; tables of contents, and indexes. More complete than any preceding edition. In eight volumes. Volume 1 - 8. - Edinburgh: A. Donaldson 1761.

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Inhalt:
Vol. 1: "The Editors Preface To the Second Scotch Edition, in 1756", datiert "September 1756", Kolumnentitel z. T. "Hawkesworth's Preface", S. III-XX; "The Family of Swift. Taken form Mr. Deane Swift's Essay." S. XXI-XXX; "An Account of the Life of Dr. Jonathan Swift, dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin", S. XXXI-CXXII; "Some particulars in Dr. Swift's Character, extracted from Lord Orrery's Remarks, and Mr. Swift's Essay. From Lord Orrery." S. CXXII-CXXVIII; "Some particulars concerning Dr. Swift, Taken from Mrs Pilkington's Memoirs." S. CXXIX-CXXXIX. Es folgen: A Tale of a Tub, The Battle of the Books, A Discourse oncerning the Mechanical Operations of the Spirit, An Argument against Abolishing Christianity, A Project for the Advancement of Religion, The Sentiments of a Church of Enbland-man with Respect to Religion and Government, 5 "Sermons", A Proposal to the Parliament, for Preventing the Growth of Popery.
Vol. 2: Essays, u. a. "A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and Commons in Athens and Rome", "The Public Spirit of the Whigs"; Artikel aus "The Examiner".
Vol. 3: Essays.
Vol. 4: Gulliver's Travels (Travels into several Remote Nations of the World); Essays, u. a. auch "The wonderful wonder of wonders" (S. 336-340) und "The Wonder of all the Wonders that ever the World Wondered at" (S. 341-343). In Vol. 4 auch "The history of John Bull" von John Arbuthnot sowie etliche kleinere Schriften von Arbuthnot, Alexander Pope und John Gay.
Vol. 5: "Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus", "Martinus Scriblerus peri bathous: or, Of the art of sinking in poetry"; Arbuthnot, John: "Law is a Bottomless Pit; or, The History of John Bull" S. 175-283, kleinere Schriften von Arbuthnot, Pope und Gay; Artikel Swifts aus "The Tatler" und 1 Essay.
Vol. 6: 'Miscellanies in Verse', darunter auch etliche nicht von Swift stammende Gedichte, die mit "*" gekennzeichnet sind.
Vol. 7: 'Miscellanies in Verse continued", "Posthumous Pieces" (ab S. 170 in Prosa).
Vol. 8: Briefe von und an Swift.

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