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The Battle of the Books, by Jonathan Swift,
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Title: The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces
Author: Jonathan Swift
Editor: Henry Morley
Release Date: January 15, 2007 [eBook #623]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
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Transcribed from the 1886 Cassell & Company edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS AND OTHER SHORT PIECES.
BY JONATHAN SWIFT.
CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED: LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK & MELBOURNE. 1886.
INTRODUCTION.
Jonathan Swift was born in 1667, on the 30th of November. His father was a Jonathan Swift, sixth of the ten sons of the Rev. Thomas Swift, vicar of Goodrich, near Ross, in Herefordshire, who had married Elizabeth Dryden, niece to the poet Dryden's grandfather. Jonathan Swift married, at Leicester, Abigail Erick, or Herrick, who was of the family that had given to England Robert Herrick, the poet. As their eldest brother, Godwin, was prospering in Ireland, four other Swifts, Dryden, William, Jonathan, and Adam, all in turn found their way to Dublin. Jonathan was admitted an attorney of the King's Inns, Dublin, and was appointed by the Benchers to the office of Steward