TO NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILBEN FOUNDATIONS

THE

WORKS

OF THE

REV. JONATHAN SWIFT, D. D.

DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S, DUBLIN.

ARRANGED BY

THOMAS SHERIDAN, A. M.

WITH

NOTES, HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL,

A NEW EDITION, IN TWENTY-FOUR VOLUMES.

CORRECTED AND REVISED

BY JOHN NICHOLS, F. A. S.

EDINBURGH AND PERTH.

VOLUME IX.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM DURELL AND CO,

1812.3

E. S. VAN WINKLE, PRINTER y
Water-street, New York.

LENOX

CONTENTS

OF

THE NINTH VOLUME.

THE Publisher to the reader,

A Letter from Captain Gulliver to his Cousin Simpson,

A VOYAGE to Lilliput,

PART I.

CHAP. I. The author gives some account of himself and family:

his inducements to travel. He is shipwrecked, and swims

for his life; gets safe on shore in the country of Lilliput; is

made a prisoner, and carried up the country,

CHAP. II. The Emperor of Lilliput, attended by several of the

nobility, comes to see the author in his confinement. The

emperor's person and habit described. Learned men ap-

pointed to teach the author their language. He gains fa-

vour by his mild disposition. His pockets are searched,

and his sword and pistols taken from him,

CHAP. III.

The author diverts the emperor and his nobility

of both sexes, in a very uncommon manner. The diver-

sions of the court of Lilliput described. The author has

his liberty granted him upon certain conditions,

CHAP. IV. Mildendo, the metropolis of Lilliput, described,

together with the emperor's palace. A conversation be-

tween the author and a principal secretary, concerning

the affairs of that empire. The author's offers to serve

the emperor in his wars,

CHAP. V. The author, by an extraordinary stratagem, pre-

vents an invasion. A high title of honour is conferred

upon him. Ambassadors arrive from the emperor of Ble-

fuscu and sue for peace. The empress's apartments on fire

by accident: the author instrumental in saving the rest of

the palace,

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