Swift, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from Swift, Vol. 1: The Man, His Works, and the Age, Mr. Swift and His ContemporariesFor their incredible patience and hospitality, I am indebted to Dr William O'sullivan, Dr Richard Hayes, Mr L. W. Hanson, and the other librarians of those sanctuaries where my work was mainly done: Indiana University, the British Museum, Trinity College (dublin), the National Library of Ireland, and - condi tion to which all others naturally aspire - the Bodleian Library, Oxford.For generously permitting me to use manuscript materials, I thank the Board of Trinity College, Dublin, the Trustees of the British Museum, the officers of the Leicester City Museum, Bod ley's Librarian, and Mr James Osborn. I thank the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press for allowing me to quote from R. L. Colie, Light and Enlightenment, and A. R. Hall, Ballistics in the Seventeenth Century, the Delegates of the Clarendon Press for L. A. Landa, Swift and the Church of Ireland and the officers of the University Press, Dublin, for C. E. Maxwell, A History of Trinity College, Dublin.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.