{"product_id":"2940015713800","title":"The Prose Works Of Jonathan Swift, DD Volume 10","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE HISTORY OF THE FOUR LAST YEARS OF THE QUEEN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAN ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND:\u003cbr\u003e  From the invasion of it by Julius Caesar to the Reign of Henry the Second\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREMARKS ON THE CHARACTERS OF THE COURT OF QUEEN ANNE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREMARKS ON LORD CLARENDON'S \"HISTORY OF THE REBELLION\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREMARKS ON BISHOP BURNET'S \"HISTORY OF HIS OWN TIME\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOTES ON THE \"FREEHOLDER\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINDEX\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE  HISTORY OF\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE FOUR LAST YEARS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOF THE QUEEN.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy the late\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJONATHAN SWIFT,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eD.D.  D.S.P.D.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished from the\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLast MANUSCRIPT Copy, Corrected and\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnlarged by the Author's OWN HAND.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLONDON:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrinted for A. MILLAR, in the Strand:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMDCCLVIII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_ADVERTISEMENT_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_PREFIXED TO THE EDITION OF_ 1758.[1]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Footnote 1: This advertisement was written by the editor, Dr. Charles\u003cbr\u003eLucas of Dublin. This Lucas was the patriot who created such a stir in\u003cbr\u003eIrish politics between the years 1743 and 1750. Lord Townshend, in a\u003cbr\u003eletter to the Marquis of Granby, called him \"the Wilkes of Ireland.\" As\u003cbr\u003ean author he seems to have been very prolific, though of no polish in\u003cbr\u003ehis writings. Lucas's disclaimers of sympathy with the opinions\u003cbr\u003econtained in the work he edited are somewhat over-stated, and his\u003cbr\u003ecriticisms are petty. A full account of this hot-headed physician may be\u003cbr\u003efound in the Dictionary of National Biography. It was Dr. Johnson, in\u003cbr\u003ehis life of Swift, who first published the information that Lucas edited\u003cbr\u003ethis \"History.\" [T.S.]]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_Thus, the long wished for_ History of the Four Last Years of the\u003cbr\u003eQueen's Reign _is at length brought to light, in spite of all attempts\u003cbr\u003eto suppress it_!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs this publication is not made under the sanction of the name, or\u003cbr\u003enames, which the author and the world had a right to expect; it is fit\u003cbr\u003esome account of the works appearing in this manner should be here given.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong before the Dean's apparent decline, some of his intimate friends,\u003cbr\u003ewith concern, foresaw the impending fate of his fortune and his works.\u003cbr\u003eTo this it is owing, that these sheets, which the world now despaired of\u003cbr\u003eever seeing, are rescued from obscurity, perhaps from destruction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor this, the public is indebted to a gentleman, now in Ireland, of the\u003cbr\u003egreatest probity and worth, with whom the Dean long lived in perfect\u003cbr\u003eintimacy. To this gentleman's hands the Dean entrusted a copy of his\u003cbr\u003eHistory, desiring him to peruse and give his judgment of it, with the\u003cbr\u003elast corrections and amendments the author had given it, in his own\u003cbr\u003ehand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis friend read, admired, and approved. And from a dread of so valuable\u003cbr\u003eand so interesting a work's being by any_ _accident lost or effaced, as\u003cbr\u003ewas probable by its not being intended to be published in the author's\u003cbr\u003elifetime; he resolved to keep this copy, till the author should press\u003cbr\u003ehim for it; but with a determined purpose, it should never see the\u003cbr\u003elight, while there was any hopes of the author's own copy being\u003cbr\u003epublished, or even preserved.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181237551344,"sku":"2940015713800","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015713800","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}