Orrery, John Boyle of: Remarks On The Life and Writings Of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin : In a Series of Letters From John Earl of Orrery To his Son, the Honourable Hamilton Boyle. London : Millar, 1752
Content
- PDF Front cover
- PDF Endsheet
- PDF Porträt
- PDF Title page
- PDF Letter I.
- PDF The introduction.
- PDF 2 A general character of Dr. Swift.
- PDF 4 The place of his birth.
- PDF 5 An account of his family.
- PDF 6 His education at school, and at the university of Dublin.
- PDF 7 His degree of batchelor of arts, speciali gratiâ.
- PDF 8 His admission ad eundem at Hart-Hall in Oxford.
- PDF 9 Letter II.
- PDF 9 Dr. Swift, a master of arts, in the year 1691.
- PDF 9 Sir William Temple's kindness to him.
- PDF 11 A letter from him to his uncle, William Swift, dated in the year 1692.
- PDF 12 Dr. Swift quits Oxford, and lives with Sir William Temple.
- PDF 13 Sir William Temple's death.
- PDF 14 The history of Stella, the wife of Dr. Swift.
- PDF 18 Letter III.
- PDF 18 Dr. Swift's fruitless attendance at Whitehall.
- PDF 19 He goes to Ireland as chaplain and secretary to Lord Berkeley.
- PDF 19 Mr. Bush supersedes him in the office of secretary.
- PDF 20 He is put in possession of two rectories, Laracor and Rathbeggan.
- PDF 20 His clerk Roger.
- PDF 20 His sister disobliges him by marrying a tradesman.
- PDF 21 His mother died at Leicester.
- PDF 21 His manner of travelling.
- PDF 22 The deanery of Derry intended for Dr. Swift.
- PDF 23 The first interview between Archbishop King and Primate Boulter.
- PDF 23 King Williams dies.
- PDF 24 Letter IV.
- PDF 24 Queen Anne's chief ministers.
- PDF 25 Dr. Swift attaches himself to the tories.
- PDF 26 The commencement of his intimacy with the Earl of Oxford.
- PDF 27 His inclinations to settle in England.
- PDF 28 A quotation from one of his letters to Mr. Pope.
- PDF 29 He is made Dean of St. Patrick's, in Ireland, in the year 1713.
- PDF 30 His disappointment of a bishoprick.
- PDF 31 Letter V.
- PDF 31 The rage of party in Ireland at Dr. Swift's arrival there, in the year 1713.
- PDF 32 Swift´s behaviour to the chapter of St. Patrick's.
- PDF 33 A letter from Mr. Pope to Dr. Swift.
- PDF 38 Queen Anne dies, and Dr. Swift goes to his deanery in Ireland.
- PDF 39 Letter VI.
- PDF 39 The state of Ireland at the death of Queen Anne.
- PDF 40 The different characters of Dr. Tillotson, Mr. Addison, and Dr. Swift, as writers in prose.
- PDF 41 Swift's want of delicacy.
- PDF 41 A criticism on Swift's poetical writings.
- PDF 42 Swift compared to Horace.
- PDF 44 In the year 1720. he is distinguished by the title of the Dean.
- PDF 45 The Drapier's Letters gain universal applause.
- PDF 46 Swift's works from 1714. to 1720. are few and trifling.
- PDF 49 Letter VII.
- PDF 50 Faulkner's edition of the Dean's works.
- PDF 53 The character of Dr. Sheridan.
- PDF 56 Some reflections upon the variegated character of Dr. Swift.
- PDF 57 Letter VIII.
- PDF 58 The first volume of Faulkner's edition of Swift's works.
- PDF 58 Remarks upon A discourse of the contests and diffentions between the nobles and commons in Athens and Rome.
- PDF 60 A Meditation upon a Broom-stick.
- PDF 61 The Sentiments of a Church-of England Man, with respect to Religion and Government.
- PDF 61 The Argument against abolishing Christianity.
- PDF 62 A Project for the Advancement of Religion, and the Reformation of Manners.
- PDF 63 The tritical Essay on the Faculties of the Mind.
- PDF 63 The Letter to the Earl of Oxford for correcting, improving, and ascertaining the English Tongue.
- PDF 65 To a young Lady on her Marriage.
- PDF 66 Letter IX.
- PDF 76 Letter X.
- PDF 79 Remarks upon The Lady's Dressing-Room.
- PDF 80 Some general Remarks upon Swift's Poems.
- PDF 81 An anecdote concerning Daphne.
- PDF 82 Swift's seraglio.
- PDF 83 Remarks upon Swift's Riddles, his Latin Epistle to Dr. Sheridan, and his Description in Latin of the Rocks of Carbery.
- PDF 84 Letter XI.
- PDF 84 The third volume of Swift's works.
- PDF 84 Some general observations upon Lemuel Gulliver's Travels into several remote Nations of the World.
- PDF 89 A letter from Mrs. Whiteway to Lord Orrery, dated November 22. 1742. describing the melancholy situation of Dr. Swift's health and understanding.
- PDF 91 A letter from Deane Swift, Esq; to the same purport, dated April 4. 1744.
- PDF 93 Cyrano De Bergerac's voyage to the sun and moon.
- PDF 95 Letter XII.
- PDF 95 Swift unacquainted with mathematics.
- PDF 97 Remarks upon the flying island, and the manners, and various projects of the philosophers of Lagado.
- PDF 98 Swift's dictionary for his female senate.
- PDF 99 That, true humour and decency ought always to go together.
- PDF 100 Letter XIII.
- PDF 101 A character of Alexander the Great.
- PDF 102 Remarks upon Hannibal, and Livy the historian.
- PDF 103 The ghosts of Pompey and Cæser introduced by Swift only to grace the entry of Brutus, his favourite patriot.
- PDF 104 An epigram on the bust of Brutus.
- PDF 104 A defence of Cæsar the dictator.
- PDF 105 Swift's sextumvirate.
- PDF 107 The different tempers of the Archbishop of Cambray and the Dean of St. Patrick's.
- PDF 108 Letter XIV.
- PDF 109 Short characters of Homer.
- PDF 111 Of Aristotle.
- PDF 112 Of Ramus, Scotus, and Aquinas.
- PDF 112 Of Epicurus.
- PDF 115 Of Descartes.
- PDF 115 Of Gassendi.
- PDF 116 Remarks upon the Struldbruggs.
- PDF 117 Letter XV.
- PDF 122 Letter XVI.
- PDF 122 The fourth volume of Swift's works.
- PDF 122 Remarks upon A Letter from a Member of the House of Commons in Ireland, to a Member of the House of Commons in England, concerning the Sacramental Test.
- PDF 123 Swift's race with Dr. Raymond.
- PDF 124 Remarks upon A Proposal for the universal Use of Irish Manufacture in Cloaths, and Furniture of Houses, &c.
- PDF 125 Some Arguments against enlarging the Power of Bishops in letting Leases.
- PDF 126 The Drapier's Letters, and a full and true Account of the solemn procession to the Gallows at the Execution of William Wood, Esq; and Hard-ware-man.
- PDF 127 The present state of Ireland.
- PDF 127 Some pamphilets in the fourth volume, mentioned only as being particularly humorous.
- PDF 129 A copy of verses from Lord Orrery to Dr. Swift.
- PDF 131 Letter XVII.
- PDF 131 The fifth volume of Swift's works.
- PDF 131 Remarks upon The Conduct of the Allies.
- PDF 132 The Examiners.
- PDF 133 Some reflections upon Political pamphlets, and upon party.
- PDF 136 Letter XVIII.
- PDF 136 The sixth volume of Swift's works.
- PDF 136 A character of the Earl of Peterborough.
- PDF 138 Remarks upon a pamphlet entitled, The public Spirit of the Whigs.
- PDF 143 Letter XIX.
- PDF 143 The seventh volume of Swift's works, containing his epistolary Correspondence from the year1714 to the year 1737.
- PDF 143 Some general observations and advice.
- PDF 145 A comparison between the writings and manners of Dr. Swift and Mr. Pope.
- PDF 147 Their friendship mutual and lasting.
- PDF 151 Remarks upon the writings of Lord Bacon.
- PDF 151 Of Milton.
- PDF 152 Of Harrington.
- PDF 152 Of Algernon Sydney.
- PDF 152 Of Lord Clarendon.
- PDF 152 Of Dr. Sprat, Bishop of Rochester.
- PDF 153 Of Sir William Temple.
- PDF 153 Swift, Addison, and Lord Bolingbroke, our three best English writers.
- PDF 154 Remarks on Pope's Ethic Epistles, and his Essay on Man.
- PDF 154 Some hints at Lord Bolingbroke's character.
- PDF 155 Letter XX.
- PDF 155 Remarks upon A letter from Dr. Swift to Mr. Pope, dated Dublin, January 10. 1721.
- PDF 162 Lord Bolingbroke's letters.
- PDF 162 Gay's letters.
- PDF 164 A character of Dr. Arbuthnot.
- PDF 165 Animadversions upon epistolary writings.
- PDF 167 A postscript.
- PDF 167 Letter XXI.
- PDF 167 The eighth volume of Swift's works.
- PDF 168 Remarks on Dr. Swift's will.
- PDF 169 The situation of his health, and mind, from the year 1739 to his death, at the latter end of October 1745.
- PDF 170 Dr. Swift's pre-sentiments of his fate.
- PDF 170 The amount of his fortune.
- PDF 171 A dissertation upon lunacy.
- PDF 177 A dissertation upon idiotism.
- PDF 179 Letter XXII.
- PDF 179 Remarks upon Swift's Directions to Servants,
- PDF 181 Reasons humbly offered to the Parliament of Ireland, for repealing the Sacramental Test in favour of the Catholics.
- PDF 183 The remainder of the volume compared to a garden overrun with docks and thistles, among wich Swift's three sermons appear as roses.
- PDF 184 Remarks upon those sermons.
- PDF 188 Swift's aversion to triplets.
- PDF 190 Swift's writings compared to a machine in Winstanley's water-works.
- PDF 190 Letter XXIII.
- PDF 191 Remarks upon The Tale of a Tub.
- PDF 197 A criticism on Virgil, attempting to prove, that he has mentioned Horace.
- PDF 203 Some hints relating to Wotton, Bentley, and Boyle.
- PDF 205 A quotation from Virgil relating to Anchises.
- PDF 205 Remarks upon The Fragment, or a Discourse concerning the mechanical Operation of the Spirit.
- PDF 206 Letter XXIV.
- PDF 206 Some hints of a manuscript (entitled by Dr. Swift), An History of the four last years of Queen Anne.
- PDF 213 The conclusion.
- PDF The Index.
- PDF Endsheet
- PDF Back cover
- PDF Spine