1788 WORKS O F Dr JONATHAN SWIFT, DEAN of ST PATRICK'S, DUBLIN. VOLUME IX. EDINBURG H: Printed for JOHN BALFOUR. M,D CC,L X VI. باما ٦ Regent L. L. Huchbard [ i ]* 3-1-29 ADVERTISEMENT. T HE pleasure Dean SWIFT's Works have already afforded will be a fufficient apology for communicating to the Reader, tho' fomewhat out of feafon, thefe additional Volumes; who will be lefs difpleafed, that they have been fo. long fuppreffed, than thankful that they are are now at last published. We have no occafion to apologize for the Pieces themselves; for as they have all the internal marks of genuineness, fo, by their further opening the Author's private correfpondence, they difplay the goodness of his heart, no less than the neverceafing fallies of his wit. His anfwer to The Rights of the Chriftian Church is a remarkable inftance of both; which, though unfinished, and but the flight prolufions of his ftrength, fhew how fincere, how able a champion he was of religion and [iv] So foon as thefe and the church. were printed in Dublin, in a new edition of the Dean's works, it was a justice due to them to select them thence, to complete the London edition. Like the Author, though they owe their birth to Ireland, they will feel their maturity in Britain, and each nation will contend which fhall receive them with greater ardour. CON |