A Tale of a Tub: Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. to Which ...
A Tale of a Tub: Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. to Which ...
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
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The ship in Digitized by Google THE AUTHOR'S PRFFACE. 6J danger is easily understood to be its old antitype, the commonwealth.* But how to analyse the tub, was a matter of difficulty : when, after long inquiry and de- bate, the literal meaning was preserved ; and it was de- creed, that in order to prevent these leviathans from /tossing and sporting with the conunonwealth, which of / itself is too apt to. fluctuate, they should be diverted from that game by a Tale of a Tub. And, my genius being ...conceived to lie not unhappily that way, I had the honour done me to be engaged in the performance. This is the sole design in publishing the following treatise, which I hope will serve for an interim of some months to employ those unquiet spirits, till the perfect* ing of that great work : into the secret of which, it is reasonable the courteous reader should have some little light- It is intended, that a large academy be erected, capa- ble of containing nine thousand seven hundred forty and three persons ;t which, by modest computation, is reckoned to be pretty near the current number of wits, in this island.
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