The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 / Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
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- THE PROSE WORKS
- OF
- JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D.
- EDITED BY
- TEMPLE SCOTT. VOL. VII
- HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL TRACTS—IRISH
- SOME PRESS OPINIONS
- Jonathan Swift From an engraving by Andrew Miller after the painting by Francis Bindon in the Deanery of St. Patrick's Dublin.
- INTRODUCTION
- CONTENTS
- A LETTER
- TO
- A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, IN IRELAND,
- UPON THE CHOOSING A NEW SPEAKER THERE.
- NOTE.
- A LETTER
- TO
- A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT, IN IRELAND, UPON THE CHOOSING A NEW SPEAKER THERE.
- A PROPOSAL
- FOR THE
- UNIVERSAL USE OF IRISH MANUFACTURE.
- NOTE.
- A
- PROPOSAL
- For the universal Use
- Of Irish Manufacture,
- IN
- UTTERLY
- Rejecting and Renouncing
- ENGLAND.
- A PROPOSAL FOR THE UNIVERSAL USE OF IRISH MANUFACTURE, IN CLOTHES AND FURNITURE OF HOUSES, &c.
- UTTERLY REJECTING AND RENOUNCING EVERY THING WEARABLE THAT COMES FROM ENGLAND.
- AN ESSAY
- ENGLISH BUBBLES.
- NOTE.
- AN ESSAY ON ENGLISH BUBBLES.
- THE SWEARER'S BANK.
- NOTE.
- THE
- Swearer's-Bank:
- OR,
- Parliamentary Security
- FOR
- Establishing a new Bank
- IN
- IRELAND.
- The Medicinal Use of Oaths is considered. (WITH The Best in Christendom. A TALE.) Written by Dean Swift.
- An ESSAY upon English Bubbles.
- THE SWEARER'S BANK.
- A LETTER
- TO THE
- KING AT ARMS.
- THE
- LAST SPEECH AND DYING WORDS
- OF
- EBENEZER ELLISTON.
- WHO WAS EXECUTED THE SECOND DAY OF MAY, 1722.
- NOTE.
- THE LAST SPEECH AND DYING WORDS OF EBENEZER ELLISTON.
- THE TRUTH
- OF SOME
- MAXIMS IN STATE AND GOVERNMENT,
- EXAMINED
- WITH REFERENCE TO IRELAND.
- NOTE.
- MAXIMS CONTROLLED[37] IN IRELAND.
- THE
- BLUNDERS, DEFICIENCIES, DISTRESSES, AND MISFORTUNES OF QUILCA.
- PROPOSED TO CONTAIN ONE AND TWENTY VOLUMES IN QUARTO
- NOTE.
- THE
- BLUNDERS, DEFICIENCIES, DISTRESSES, AND MISFORTUNES OF QUILCA.[45]
- A SHORT VIEW
- THE STATE OF IRELAND.
- NOTE.
- A
- Short VIEW
- OF THE
- STATE
- OF
- IRELAND.
- THE STORY
- OF THE
- INJURED LADY.
- WRITTEN BY HERSELF. AND
- THE ANSWER TO THE INJURED LADY.
- NOTE.
- THE
- STORY
- OF THE
- INJURED LADY.
- Scotch Perfidy, Irish Poverty, and English Partiality. WITH
- LETTERS and POEMS
- Never before Printed.
- THE STORY OF THE INJURED LADY.
- THE ANSWER TO THE INJURED LADY.
- AN
- ANSWER TO A PAPER,
- CALLED
- "A MEMORIAL
- OF THE POOR INHABITANTS, TRADESMEN, AND LABOURERS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND."
- NOTE.
- AN ANSWER TO A PAPER, CALLED "A MEMORIAL
- POOR INHABITANTS, TRADESMEN, AND LABOURERS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND."
- ANSWER TO SEVERAL LETTERS FROM UNKNOWN PERSONS.[86]
- ANSWER TO SEVERAL LETTERS FROM UNKNOWN PERSONS.[87]
- AN ANSWER TO SEVERAL LETTERS SENT ME FROM UNKNOWN HANDS.[94]
- A LETTER TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN,
- CONCERNING THE WEAVERS.
- NOTE.
- A LETTER TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN, CONCERNING THE WEAVERS.
- OBSERVATIONS,
- OCCASIONED BY READING A PAPER ENTITLED, "THE CASE OF THE WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES OF DUBLIN," ETC.[102]
- THE
- PRESENT MISERABLE STATE
- OF
- IRELAND.
- NOTE.
- THE PRESENT MISERABLE STATE OF IRELAND.
- THE SUBSTANCE
- OF WHAT WAS SAID BY
- THE DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S
- TO
- THE LORD MAYOR AND SOME OF THE ALDERMEN,
- WHEN HIS LORDSHIP CAME TO PRESENT THE SAID DEAN WITH HIS FREEDOM IN A GOLD BOX.
- NOTE.
- THE SUBSTANCE OF WHAT WAS SAID BY THE DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S
- TO THE LORD MAYOR AND SOME OF THE ALDERMEN, WHEN HIS LORDSHIP CAME TO PRESENT THE SAID DEAN WITH HIS FREEDOM IN A GOLD BOX.
- ADVERTISEMENT BY DR. SWIFT,
- IN HIS DEFENCE AGAINST JOSHUA, LORD ALLEN. [112]
- A
- LETTER
- ON
- MR. M'CULLA'S PROJECT ABOUT HALFPENCE,
- AND A NEW ONE PROPOSED.
- NOTE.
- A LETTER ON MR. M'CULLA'S PROJECT ABOUT HALFPENCE, AND A NEW ONE PROPOSED.
- A PROPOSAL
- ALL THE LADIES AND WOMEN OF IRELAND SHOULD APPEAR CONSTANTLY IN IRISH MANUFACTURES.
- NOTE.
- A PROPOSAL THAT ALL THE LADIES AND WOMEN OF IRELAND SHOULD APPEAR CONSTANTLY IN IRISH MANUFACTURES.
- A MODEST
- PROPOSAL
- For preventing the
- CHILDREN
- OF
- POOR PEOPLE
- Their Parents or Country,
- AND For making them Beneficial to the Publick.
- NOTE.
- A
- MODEST PROPOSAL
- FOR PREVENTING THE CHILDREN OF POOR PEOPLE FROM BEING A BURTHEN TO THEIR PARENTS OR COUNTRY, AND FOR MAKING THEM BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBLIC.
- ANSWER TO THE CRAFTSMAN.
- NOTE.
- ANSWER TO THE CRAFTSMAN[138]
- A
- VINDICATION
- OF
- HIS EXCELLENCY JOHN, LORD CARTERET.
- NOTE.
- A
- VINDICATION
- OF HIS
- EXCELLENCY
- THE
- Lord C——T,
- FROM THE
- CHARGE
- Tories, High-Churchmen and Jacobites.
- A VINDICATION OF HIS EXCELLENCY JOHN, LORD CARTERET.
- A PROPOSAL
- AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT, TO PAY OFF THE DEBT OF THE NATION, WITHOUT TAXING THE SUBJECT.
- NOTE.
- A PROPOSAL FOR AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT, TO PAY OFF THE DEBT OF THE NATION, WITHOUT TAXING THE SUBJECT.
- A CASE SUBMITTED BY DEAN SWIFT TO MR. LINDSAY, COUNSELLOR AT LAW.[172]
- AN
- EXAMINATION
- OF
- CERTAIN ABUSES, CORRUPTIONS, AND ENORMITIES
- IN THE CITY OF DUBLIN.
- NOTE.
- AN
- EXAMINATION
- OF CERTAIN
- Abuses, Corruptions,
- AND
- ENORMITIES
- IN THE
- City of DUBLIN.
- A
- SERIOUS and USEFUL
- SCHEME,
- To make an
- Hospital for Incurables,
- OF
- Universal Benefit to all His Majesty's Subjects.
- A Petition of the Footmen in and about Dublin.
- NOTE.
- A SERIOUS AND USEFUL SCHEME TO MAKE AN HOSPITAL FOR INCURABLES.
- TO THE HONOURABLE
- HOUSE OF COMMONS, &c.
- NOTE.
- TO THE HONOURABLE
- HOUSE OF COMMONS, &c.
- ADVICE
- TO THE
- FREEMEN OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN,
- IN THE CHOICE OF A MEMBER TO REPRESENT THEM IN PARLIAMENT.
- NOTE.
- ADVICE TO THE FREEMEN OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN, IN THE CHOICE OF A MEMBER TO REPRESENT THEM IN PARLIAMENT.
- SOME
- CONSIDERATIONS
- IN THE
- CHOICE OF A RECORDER.
- SOME CONSIDERATIONS IN THE CHOICE OF A RECORDER.
- A PROPOSAL
- FOR GIVING
- BADGES
- TO THE
- BEGGARS
- IN ALL THE
- Parishes of DUBLIN.
- DEAN of St. PATRICK's
- NOTE.
- A PROPOSAL FOR GIVING BADGES TO THE BEGGARS IN ALL THE PARISHES OF DUBLIN.
- CONSIDERATIONS
- ABOUT MAINTAINING THE POOR.
- NOTE.
- CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT MAINTAINING THE POOR.
- ON BARBAROUS DENOMINATIONS IN IRELAND.
- SPEECH DELIVERED BY DEAN SWIFT
- TO AN ASSEMBLY OF MERCHANTS MET AT THE GUILDHALL, TO DRAW UP A PETITION TO THE LORD LIEUTENANT ON THE LOWERING OF COIN, APRIL 24TH, 1736.
- NOTE.
- SPEECH DELIVERED ON THE LOWERING OF THE COIN.
- MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.
- IRISH ELOQUENCE.[196]
- A DIALOGUE IN HIBERNIAN STYLE BETWEEN A. AND B.[197]
- TO THE PROVOST AND SENIOR FELLOWS OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN.
- TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL THE MAYOR, ALDERMEN, SHERIFFS, AND COMMON-COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORK.
- TO THE HONOURABLE THE SOCIETY
- OF THE
- GOVERNOR AND ASSISTANTS, LONDON,
- FOR THE NEW PLANTATION IN ULSTER, WITHIN THE REALM OF IRELAND, AT THE CHAMBER IN GUILDHALL, LONDON.
- CERTIFICATE TO A DISCARDED SERVANT.
- AN EXHORTATION ADDRESSED TO THE SUB-DEAN AND CHAPTER OF ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, DUBLIN.
- APPENDIX.
- A LETTER TO THE WRITER OF THE OCCASIONAL PAPER. NOTE.
- "PROPOSAL FOR VIRTUE."
- A LETTER TO THE WRITER OF THE OCCASIONAL PAPER. or [200]
- [VIDE THE CRAFTSMAN, 1727.]
- AN ACCOUNT OF THE COURT AND EMPIRE OF JAPAN.[202]
- THE ANSWER OF THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM PULTENEY, Esq., TO THE RIGHT HON. SIR ROBERT WALPOLE.[216]
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- FOOTNOTES:
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