CONTENTS

PREFACE

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A TALE OF A TUB.

Epistle dedicatory to Prince Posterity

The Introduction

What is Man but a Micro-coat? (Section II.)

A Digression in Praise of Digressions

A Digression concerning Madness

From a Farther Digression.

THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS

The Spider and the Bee.

The Battle

The Episode of Bentley and Wotton

THE ABOLISHING OF CHRISTIANITY IN ENGLAND

A MEDITATION UPON A BROOMSTICK

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS

Gulliver's Reception in Lilliput

The Inventory of the Man-Mountain

Factions in the State of Lilliput

The Capture of the Fleet of Blefuscu

Arrival in Brobdingnag

The King of Brobdingnag's Inquiry

The Humours of the Laputians

The Academy of Lagado

A particular Account of the Struldbrugs

The Gray Houyhnhnm

The Virtues of the Houyhnhnms.

ENGLISH POLITICAL TRACTS

The Examiner.

The Examiner. No. 16

The Conduct of the Allies

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II2

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No. 15

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A PROPOSAL FOR CORRECTING, IMPROVING, AND ASCER-

TAINING THE ENGLISH TONGUE

187

Tracts RELATING TO IRELAND

203

The Swearers' Bank

205

The Drapier's Fourth Letter

210

A Modest Proposal for preventing the Children of poor

people in Ireland from being a burden to their parents

and country, and for making them beneficial to the

public

229

POLITE CONVERSATION

241