Excerpt from The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Vol. 5: Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin Sous comfort however. It is, that all. Of them are ia nocent, and molt of them. fli ht as they are, had yet a moral tendency; either to fotien the virulence of parties againll each other; or to laugh out of countenance fome Vice or folly of the time or to difcredit the impofitione of quakes and falfe pretenders to fcience; or to humble the arrogance of the ill-natured and envious in a word', to leflbn the vanity, and promote the good humour of mankind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.