Excerpt from The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Vol. 3 But the confequences have been (till worfe: We have been entitled, and have had our names prefixed at length, to whole volumes of mean produetions, equally of fenfive to good manners and good fenfe, which we never faw nor heard of till they appeared in print. For a forgery in fetting a falfe name to a writing, which may prejudice another's fortune, the law punifhes the offender with the lofs of his ears but has inflieted no adequate penalty for fuch, as prejudice an other's' reputation in doing the fame thing in print; though all and every indivi dual book, fo fold under a falfe name, are manifef'cly fo many feveral and multipli ed forgeries. 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.