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