Author: Swift Jonathan Title: THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS AND OTHER SHORT PIECES Source: http://promo.net/pg/_authors/swift_jonathan_.html# Subject: ENGLISH FICTION (823)
The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces Jonathan Swift Contents: Preface I. THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS II. A MEDITATION UPON A BROOMSTICK. III. PREDICTIONS FOR THE YEAR 1708. IV. THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE FIRST OF MR. BICKERSTAFF'S PREDICTIONS. V. BAUCIS AND PHILEMON. VI. THE LOGICIANS REFUTED. VII. THE PUPPET SHOW. VIII. CADENUS AND VANESSA. IX. STELLA'S BIRTHDAYS X. TO STELLA XI. THE FIRST HE WROTE OCT. 17, 1727. XII. THE SECOND PRAYER WAS WRITTEN NOV. 6, 1727. XIII. THE BEASTS' CONFESSION (1732). XIV. ABOLISHING CHRISTIANITY XV. HINTS TOWARDS AN ESSAY ON CONVERSATION. XVI. THOUGHTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. THE PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR. SATIRE is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. But, if it should happen otherwise, the danger is not great; and I have learned from long experience never to apprehend mischief from those understandings I have been able to provoke: for anger and fury, though they add strength to the sinews of the body, yet are found to relax those of the mind, and to render all its efforts feeble and impotent. There is a brain that will endure but one scumming; let the owner gather it with discretion, and manage his little stock with husbandry; but, of all things, let him beware of bringing it

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