THE

BRITISH CLASSICS:

VOLUME THE FORTY-FIFTH.

CONTAINING THE

FIRST VOLUME

OF

SWIFT'S WORKS.

"Whoever in the three kingdoms has any books at all, has SWIFT." CHESTERFIELD.

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C. S. VAN WINKLE, PRINTER,

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DELANY.

THE

WORKS

OF THE

REV. JONATHAN SWIFT, D. D.

DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S, DUBLIN.

ARRANGED BY

THOMAS SHERIDAN, A. M.

WITH

NOTES, HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL.

A NEW EDITION, IN TWENTY-FOUR VOLUMES.

CORRECTED AND REVISED

BY JOHN NICHOLS, F. A. S.

EDINBURGH AND PERTH.

VOLUME I.

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