our battering-pieces being about twelve feet long, Gulliver who was willing to facilitate the ufe of cannon in Brobdingnag, tells the king that he need not make his largest pieces longer than one-hundred feet; but this proportion is deftroyed, and Gulliver reprefented as incumbering a new project with unnecessary expence and labour, by changing one hundred feet inIbid. Chap. VII.

to two.

When Gulliver was floating on the fea in a box which Glumdalclitch used to carry on her girdle, and the water oozed in at the crannies, he obferves, that if he could have lifted up the roof, he would have fat on the top of it, where he might at least have preferved himself fome hours longer, than by being fhut up in the bold; but as if it was difficult to conceive, that when a veffel is gradually finking, a man will drown fooner in the hold than upon deck, The Irifh edition tells us, that Gulliver would have got on the top, because be might thus have preferved himself from being fhut up in it; and indeed it is a truth fo evident as to admit no difpute, that while a man fits on the top of

and the will: it might reasonably be fuppofed that a difeafe which was apparent, could not be prevented; and it should have been known, that there is no fuch affembly or place as the rules of court ladies; and that it is an abfurd redundancy to fay of a man who has the power and the will, that he has alfo the guilt to do mischief; for whatever guilt he can contract before the perpetration of the mischief, is included in the will; thefe paffages are to be found in the 46th and 48th Examiners, and in the anfwer to a memorial, Vol. X.

Thefe Examiners indeed are not taken into this collection, because the last paper written by the Dean was No. 44. which is yet a ftronger proof that he did not revife the Irish edition, where the fubJequent numbers are imputed to him, and bave received correction from the hand that corrected the reft*. The editor of the Irish edition has also taken into his collection feveral fpurious pieces in verse, which the Dean zealously difavowed, and which therefore he would certainly have

* See Examiner, No. 44. and note.

excluded

boat, letting me put on my best fuit of cloaths and a fmall bundle of linen.

Voyage to the Houyhnhnms, Chap. I. So when the Ifish editor found by an accidental tranfpofition, that Gulliver in his way to England, came to Amfterdam the 16th of April, and arrived from Amfterdam in the Downs on the 10th; be faithfully copied the mistake, although the two dates are within half a page of

each other.

Such, among innumerable others, are the Irish emendations of Gulliver's Travels, and many more examples of equal skill and diligence might have been felected from an equal number of pages in any part of the eight volumes; but he who is not convinced ly thefe, that the Dean could not thus alter to pervert his. meaning, and overlook blunders that obfcured it, would still doubt if all the rest had been brought together. Some of them however are yet more grofs, as preventing an apparent disease, for preventing the deceafe; rules for ruelles; and armed with the power, the guilt, and the will to do mifchief, inftead of armed with the power

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and the will: it might reasonably be fuppofed that a difeafe which was apparent, could not be prevented; and it should have been known, that there is no fuch affembly or place as the rules of court ladies; and that it is an abfurd redundancy to fay of a man who has the power and the will, that he has also the guilt to do mifchief; for whatever guilt he can contract before the perpetration of the mifchief, is included in the will; thefe pallages are to be found in the 46th and 48th Examiners, and in the anfwer to a memorial, Vol. X.

Thefe Examiners indeed are not taken into this collection, because the last paper written by the Dean was N°. 44. which is yet a ftronger proof that he did not revife the Irish edition, where the fubJequent numbers are imputed to him, and have received correction from the hand that corrected the reft*. The editor of the Irish edition has also taken into his collection feveral Spurious pieces in verse, which the Dean zealously disavowed, and which therefore he would certainly have

* See Examiner, No. 44. and note.

excluded

excluded from any collection printed under bis infpection and with his confent, particularly The Life and Character of Doctor Swift, on a maxim of Rochefocault, of which he fays, in a letter to Mr. Pope, dated May 1, 1733, it is an imposture, mean and trivial, and full of the cant that I most defpife. It appears alfo by a letter of Mr. Pope, dated 15 Sept. 1734, that the Dean bad ftrongly difavowed this piece, not to him only, but to Lord Carteret, and others, and that there was reafon to believe it the performance of a perfon who offered a piece in profe to a bookfeller as the Dean's, which he afterwards confelfed to be his own. In the Irish copy of the verfes on his death many paffages are to be found which Mr. Pope rejected, for when be added thefe verfes to the mifcellany in 1742, he took nothing from the Irish copy which he had then feen, and upon his authority the Irish variations are rejected in this edition.

But there is evidence of another kind to prove that the Dean never revised any edition of his works for Falkener to print,

and