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Title: A Tale of a Tub
Author: Jonathan Swift
Release Date: December, 2003 [EBook #4737] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on March 10, 2002]
Edition: 10
Language: English
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Transcribed by Stephen Rice. Additional proofing by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk. From the 1889 George Routledge and Sons "Tale of a Tub and Other Works" edition.
A TALE OF A TUB
Contents The Tale of a Tub: Advert To the Right Honourable John Lord Somers The Bookseller to The Reader The Epistle Dedicatory 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 . . . Section X.--A Farther Digression Section XI.--A Tale Of A Tub The Conclusion The History Of Martin The History of Martin A Digression On The Nature . . . The History Of Martin--Continued A Project For The Universal Benefit Of Mankind
ADVERT
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-ftree. 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.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN LORD SOMERS.
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.
