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# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 19/From Jonathan Swift to John Barber - 4

TO THE SAME.
DUBLIN,
I AM very angry with my friend doctor Delany, for not applying to you sooner, as I desired him, in favour of Mr. Matthew Pilkington, a young clergyman here, who has a great ambition to have the honour of being your chaplain in your mayoralty. I waited for the doctor's answer before I would write to you, and it came but last night. He tells me you have been so very kind as to give him a promise upon my request. I will therefore tell my story. This gentleman was brought to me by the doctor about four years ago, and I found him so modest a young man, so good a scholar and preacher, and of so hopeful a genius, and grew still better upon my hands the more I knew him, that I have been seeking all opportunities to do him some real service; ​from no other motive in the world, but the esteem I had of his worth. And I hope you know me long enough to helieve me capable of acting as I ought to do in such a case, however contrary it may be to the present practice of the world. He has a great longing to see England, and appear in the presence of Mr. Pope, Mr. Gay, doctor Arbuthnot, and some other of my friends, wherein I will assist him with my recommendations. He is no relation or dependant of mine. I am not putting you upon a job, but to encourage a young man of merit upon his own account as well as mine. He will be no burden upon you, for he has some fortune of his own, and will have a much better from his father; and has also a convenient establishment in a church in this city.
Mr. Pilkington will be ready to attend you upon your command, and I wish he may go as soon as possible, that he may have a few weeks to prepare him for his business, by seeing the Tower, the Monument, and Westminster Abbey, and have done staring in the streets.
I am so entirely out of the world, that I cannot promise a hope ever to requite your favour, otherwise than with hearty thanks for conferring this obligation upon me. And I shall ever remain, with true esteem, your most obedient, and obliged humble servant,
JONATH. SWIFT.
# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 19/From Jonathan Swift to Henry Temple - 2

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD PALMERSTON,
AT HIS HOUSE IN ST. JAMES'S SQUARE, LONDON.
I AM desired by one Mr. Curtis, a clergyman of this town, to write to your lordship upon an affair he has much at heart, and wherein he has been very unjustly and injuriously treated, I do now call to mind what I hear your lordship has written hither, that you were pleased many years ago, at my recommendation to give Dr. Ellwood a grant of a chamber in the college, which is at your disposal. For I had then some credit with your lordship, which I am told I have now lost, although I am ignorant of the reason. I shall therefore only inform your lordship in one point. When you gave that grant, it was understood to continue during Dr. Ellwood's continuance in the college; but, he growing to be a senior fellow, and requiring more conveniences, by changing one room, and purchasing another, got into a more convenient apartment, and therefore ​those who now derive under the doctor, have, during the doctor's life, the same property as if they derived under your lordship; just as if one of your tenants should let his holding to another, during the term of his lease, and take a more convenient farm. This is directly the case, and must convince your lordship immediately; for, Mr. Curtis paid for the chamber, either to the doctor, or to those who derived under him, and till the doctor dies, or leaves the college, the grant is good.
I will say nothing of Mr. Curtis's character, because the affair is a matter of short plain justice; and, besides, because I would not willingly do the young man an injury, as I happened to do to another, whom I recommended to your lordship merely for your own service, and whom you afterward rejected, expressing your reason for doing so, that I had recommended him, by which you lost the very person of the whole kingdom who by his honesty and abilities could have been most useful to you in your offices here. But these are some of the refinements among you great men, which are above my low understanding. And whatever your lordship thinks of me, I shall still remain
Your lordship's most obedient
and most humble servant,
JONATH. SWIFT.
# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 19/From Jonathan Swift to John Barber - 3

TO MR. ALDERMAN BARBER.
DUBLIN,
THERE is a young gentleman of the clergy here, for whom I have great regard. And I cannot but wish this young gentleman (for whose learning and oratory in the pulpit I will engage) might have the honour to be your chaplain in your mayoralty. His name is Matthew Pilkington; he is some years under thirty, but has more wit, sense, and discretion, than any of your London parsons ten years above his age. He has a great longing to see England, and appear in the presence of Mr. Pope, Mr. Gay, and others, in which I will venture to befriend him. You are not to tell me of prior engagements; because I have some title, as an old acquaintance, to expect a favour from you. Therefore pray let me know immediately that you have complied with my request before you had read half my letter. I expect your answer, to my satisfaction, and the ​ happiness of the young gentleman; and am, with great sincerity,
Your most obedient servant,
J. SWIFT.
P. S. You need not be afraid of Mr. Pilkington's hanging upon you; for he has some fortune of his own, and somewhat in the church; but he would be glad to see England, and be more known to those who will esteem him and may raise him.
# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 19/From Jonathan Swift to John Barber - 10

TO THE SAME.
THE bearer, Mr. Faulkner, tells me, he has honour to be known to you, and that I have credit enough to prevail on you to do him all the good offices that lie in your way. I presume he goes about some affairs that relate to his own calling, which would be of little value to him here, if he were not the printer most in vogue, and a great undertaker, perhaps too great a one; wherein you are able to be the best adviser, provided he be not too sanguine, by representing things better than he probably may find them in this wretched, beggarly, enslaved country. To my great grief, my disorder is of such a nature, and so constantly threatening, that ​I dare not ride so far as to be a night from ——: and yet when the weather is fair, I seldom fail to ride ten or a dozen miles. Mr. Faulkner will be able to give you a true journal of my life; that I generally dine at home and alone, and have not two houses in this great kingdom, where I can get a bit of meat twice a year. That I very seldom go to church for fear of being seized with a fit of giddiness in the midst of the service. I hear you have likewise some ailments to struggle with, yet I am a great deal leaner than you: but I have one advantage, that wine is good for me, and I drink a bottle to my own share every day, to bring some heat into my stomach. Dear Mr. alderman, what a number of dear and great friends have we buried, or seen driven to exile since we came acquainted? I did not know, till six months after, that my best friend, my lady Masham, was gone. I would be glad to know whether her son be good for any thing, because I much doubted when I saw him last. Tell me, do you make constant use of exercise? It is all I have to trust to, though not in regard to life but to health: I know nothing wherein years make so great a change, as in the difference of matter in conversation and writing. My thoughts are wholly taken up in considering the best manner I ought to die in, and how to dispose of my poor fortune for the best publick charity. But in conversation I trifle more and more every day, and I would not give three pence for all I read, or write, or think, in the compass of a year.
Well, God bless you, and preserve your life as long as you can reasonably desire. I take my age with less mortification, because, if I were younger, I should probably outlive the liberty of England, ​which, without some unexpected assistance from Heaven, many thousands now alive will see governed by an absolute monarch. Farewell, dear sir, and believe me to be, with true esteem,
Your most obedient humble servant,
J. SWIFT.
# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 19/From Jonathan Swift to John Barber - 5

TO MR. ALDERMAN BARBER.
DUBLIN,
I ANTICIPATE your title, because perhaps it may be your due before your chaplain, Mr. Pilkington, can attend you. And, besides, I have a mind to be the first person who gives it to you. And, first, I heartily acknowledge your goodness in favouring ​a young gentleman who has well answered all the recommendations that have been given me of him, and I have some years watched all opportunities to do him a good office, but none of the few things in my own gift that would be proper for him have fallen in my way since I knew him; and power with others, you know, or may believe, I have none. I value Mr. Pilkington as much for his modesty, as his learning and sense, or any good quality he has. And it would be hard, after your sending us over so many worthless bishops, all bedangled with their pert illiterate relations and flatterers, if you would not suffer us to lend you, at least for one year, one sample of modesty, virtue, and good sense; and I am glad it falls to your lordship to give the first precedent. I will write to Dr. Trap in Mr. Pilkington's favour, but whether I have any credit with him I cannot tell, although, perhaps, you will think, I may pretend to some. It is by my advice that Mr. Pilkington goes over somewhat sooner; for I would have him know a little of your end of the town, and what he is to do; but he will not give you any trouble or care till you please to command him, which I suppose will not be till you are settled in your office.
Nothing but this cruel accident of a lameness could have hindered me from attending your ceremonial as a spectator, and I should have forwarded, to the utmost, Mr. Pope's scheme, for I never approved the omission of those shows. And I think I saw, in my youth, a lord mayor's show with all that pomp, when sir Thomas Pilkington, of your chaplain's name and family, made his procession.
I have advised your chaplain to send you this ​ letter, and not present it, that you may be in no pain about him, for he shall wait on you the next morning, when he has taken a lodging for himself, till you come into your mayoralty.
I cannot conclude without repeating my acknowledgments for your kind remembrance of me. We were both followers of the same court and the same cause, and exiles, after a sort, you a voluntary one and I a necessary; but you have outthrown me many a hundred bars lengths. I heartily wish the continuance of your good success, and am, with great truth, your most constant friend and most obedient humble servant,
JONATH. SWIFT.
# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 19/From Jonathan Swift to John Barber - 6

TO THE RIGHT HON. JOHN BARBER, ESQ., LORD MAYOR OF LONDON.
AFTER obtaining one favour from your lordship, I am under the necessity of requesting another; which, however, I hope will not give you much trouble. I know that it depends upon chance what employments you may have in your disposal during your mayoralty; but some I presume you will have. It is therefore my request, and will be so likewise of some others among your friends, that if any employment should fall vacant, during your government, which Mr. Barber would be allowed capable of executing well, your lordship would please that ​(illegible text) the refusal, with as much favour as will consist with your own generous disposition, adding the friendship you are pleased to profess to me, which I throw heartily into the balance. He is of English birth; a very upright honest man, and his wife has abundance of merit in all respects; they design to settle among you, having turned what fortune they had here into money.
And now, my lord, I heartily give you joy of governing the noblest city in the world, where I know you are desirous, and able, to do so much good, and to set a worthy pattern for the imitation of those who shall come after you. If my health, and the bad situation of my private affairs, will permit, I shall hope to have the honour of being one among your guests next summer. Mr. Pilkington is, in his letters, perpetually full of your great favours to him, and says you will be his voucher that he still continues his modest behaviour, which I always pressed upon him as the best quality in a young man, although I never observed the least want of it in him.
I hope you will take care of your health, which in our city of Dublin is a difficult task for a lord mayor to perform; and if your lordship be under the necessity of drinking as many healths in proportion on publick days as are done here, you will be in great danger of ruining your own. I am, with entire friendship and true respect,
My lord,
Your lordship's most obedient and
most humble servant,
JONATH. SWIFT.
# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 19/From Jonathan Swift to John Barber - 11

TO JOHN BARBER, ESQ., ALDERMAN OF LONDON.
DUBLIN,
I AM glad of any occasion to write to you, and therefore business will be my excuse. I had lately a letter from Mrs. Warburton, the widow of him for whom I got a living in those parts where your society's estate lies. The substance of her request is a publick affair, wherein you and I shall agree; for neither of us are changed in point of principles. Mr. John Williams, your society's overseer, is worried by a set of people in one part of your estate, which is called Salters' Proportion, because he opposed the building of a fanatick meetinghouse in that place. This crew of dissenters are so enraged at this refusal, that they have incensed sir Thomas Webster, the landlord (I suppose under you) of that estate, against him, and are doing all in their power to get him discharged from your service. Mr. Warburton was his great friend. By what I understand, those factious people presume to take your timber at pleasure, contrary to your society's instructions, wherein Mr. Williams constantly opposes them to the utmost of his power, and that is one great cause of their malice. Long may you live a bridle to the insolence of dissenters, who, with their pupils the atheists, are now wholly employed in ruining the church; and have entered into publick associations subscribed ​and handed about publickly for that purpose. I wish you were forced to come over hither, because I am confident the journey and voyage would be good for your health: but my ill health and age have made it impossible for me to go over to you. I have often let you know that I have a good warm apartment for you, and I scorn to add any professions of your being welcome in summer or winter, or both: pray God bless you, and grant that you may live as long as you desire, and be ever happy hereafter. Is our friend Bolingbroke well? he is older than either of us; but I am chiefly concerned about his fortune: for some time ago a friend of us both writ to me, that he wished his lordship had listened a little to my thrifty lectures, instead of only laughing at them.
I am ever, with the truest affection,
Dear Mr. alderman,
Your most hearty friend
and obedient humble servant,
J. SWIFT.
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# The World's Famous Orations

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# The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke/Volume 2

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THE WORKS
OF
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
EDMUND BURKE
IN TWELVE VOLUMES
Volume the Second
London
JOHN C. NIMMO
14, King William Street, Strand, W. C.
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CONTENTS OF VOL. II
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# The World's Famous Orations/Volume 1

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The World's Famous Orations
VOL. I
GREECE
432 B.C.–324 B.C.
THE WORLD'S FAMOUS ORATIONS
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
FRANCIS W. HALSEY ASSOCIATE EDITOR
SUBSCRIPTION EDITION IN TEN VOLUMES
Vol. I
GREECE
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY New York and London
Copyright 1906 by
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
Printed in the United States of America
CONTENTS :
| Vol. I—Greece (432 B.C.—324 B.C.) ||
| | Page |
| Preface | v |
| Introduction | x |
| Achilles—His Reply to the Envoys (Legendary) | 3 |
| Pericles—I In Favor of the Peloponnesian War (432 B.C.) | 9 |
| II On Those Who Died in the War (430 B.C.) | 16 |
| III In Defense of Himself (430 B.C.) | 27 |
| Cleon—On the Punishment of the Mytileneans (427 B.C.) | 34 |
| Alcibiades—I In Support of the Athenian Expedition to Sicily (414 B.C.) | 41 |
| II To the Spartans (413 B.C.) | 47 |
| Nicias—Against the Sicilian Expedition (414 B.C.) | 49 |
| Hermocrates—On the Union of Sicily Against Invaders (416 B.C.) | 55 |
| Lysias—Against Eratosthenes (403 B.C.) | 61 ​ |
| Socrates—I In His Own Defense (399 B.C.) | 65 |
| II On Being Declared Guilty (399 B.C.) | 77 |
| III On Being Condemned to Death (399 B.C.) | 82 |
| Isocrates—On the Union of Greece to Resist Persia (380 B.C.) | 89 |
| Isaeus—In the Suit Against Dicæogenes and Leochares | 101 |
| Demosthenes—I The Second Oration Against Philip (344 B.C.) | 110 |
| II On the State of the Chersonesus (342 B.C.) | 120 |
| III On the Crown (330 B.C.) | 143 |
| Aeschines—Against Ctesiphon; or, On the Crown (330 B.C.) | 186 |
| Dinarchus—Against Demosthenes (324 B.C.) | 233 |
# The Works of H. G. Wells (Atlantic Edition)/Preface to Volume 7

PREFACE TO VOLUME VII
"The Wheels of Chance" has been held back until this seventh volume, although it was written in 1895 and published as a book in 1896, because it belongs to a distinct group in the writer's work, a series of close studies in personality which included "Love and Mr. Lewisham" (written in 1898), "Kipps," "Ann Veronica," and "The History of Mr. Polly." These four men, Hoopdriver the hero of "The Wheels of Chance," Mr. Lewisham, Kipps, and Mr. Polly, and Ann Veronica are all personalities thwarted and crippled by the defects of our contemporary civilisation. "The Wheels of Chance" followed immediately on "The Wonderful Visit" and "The Island of Dr. Moreau." It is a very "young" book; indeed, in some respects it is puerile, but the character of Hoopdriver saves it from being altogether insignificant. "Love and Mr. Lewisham," also included in this volume, was written three years afterwards, concurrently with "The Sleeper Awakes."
"Love and Mr. Lewisham" was written with greater care than any of the writer's earlier books. It was consciously a work of art; it was designed to be very clear, simple, graceful, and human. It was not a very successful book, no critic discovered any sort of beauty or technical ability in it, and it was some years before the writer could return, in "Kipps" (1905) and "Tono-Bungay" (1909), to his attack upon the novel proper.
​The picture of West Street, Midhurst, is an illustration to both these stories, for it was Midhurst Grammar School that the author had in mind as Mr. Lewisham's school and Mr. Lewisham, like the author, lodged over the small sweetstuff-shop in West Street next to the Angel, to which inn came Mr. Hoopdriver with mysterious inquiries in protective pursuit of the young lady in grey.
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PREFACE TO VOLUME VIII
"Kipps" was written in 1903-04. It is only a fragment of a much larger and more ambitious design. The original title was "The Wealth of Mr. Waddy." A whole introductory book was written before Kipps himself came upon the scene. It was put aside, and I am afraid destroyed. I seem to remember it as a quite amusing story, but my utmost efforts have failed to unearth the manuscript of those abandoned chapters. They told of Mr. Waddy's declining years and how he was adopted as an uncle by an enterprising young lady, the cousin of his housekeeper, who subsequently became Mrs. Chitterlow. Mr. Waddy made many wills and most of them were burned by Mr. Chitterlow. They were painful reading for Chitterlow, for Mr. Waddy was very outspoken in his wills. Every one of them did Chitterlow burn until only the Kipps will was left—and that Chitterlow had to make the best of. And after Kipps had been ruined by young Mr. Walshingham, there were to have been the adventures of young Mr. Walshingham as a fugitive in France. But it became clear to the writer by the time he had brought Kipps and Chitterlow together that he had planned his task upon too colossal a scale. There was no way of serialising so vast a book as he had in hand and no way of publishing it that held out any hope of fair payment for the work that remained for him to do. ​Now books are meant to be read, and there is no interest in writing them unless you believe they will get to readers. So "Kipps" was clipped off short to the dimensions of a practicable book. The book had a mild success in England and America; its publishers betrayed no enthusiasm about it—and then it went on selling. It had sold, up to the date of writing this preface, about a quarter of a million of copies in various editions, and it still sells and sells.