Law is a bottomless pit; or, The history of John Bull

Publish'd from a manuscript found in the cabinet of the famous Sir. H. Polesworth [pseud.] in the year 1712

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Law is a bottomless pit; or, The history of John Bull

Publish'd from a manuscript found in the cabinet of the famous Sir. H. Polesworth [pseud.] in the year 1712

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Law is a bottomless pit; or, The history of John Bull [by John Arbuthnot]
A key to the lock; of, A treatise proving beyond all contradiction, the dangerous tendency of a late poem, intitled The rape of the lock, to government and religion, by Esdras Barnivelt, apoth. [pseud., i.e. Alexander Pope]
A famous prediction of Merlin, the British wizard, written above a thousand years ago, and relating to the year 1709, with explanatory notes, by T.N. Philomath [pseud., i.e. Jonathan Swift]
A wonderful prophecy taken from the mouth of the spirit of a person who was barbarously slain by the Mohocks [by Jonathan Swift]
A meditation upon a broom-stick, according to the style and manner of the Honble. Robert Boyle's Meditations [by Jonathan Swift]
Memoirs of P.P., clerk of this parish, [by Alexander Pope and John Gay]
(cont)
The country-post, from Tuesday, August the 12th to Thursday, August the 14th [by John Gay]
Stradling versus Stiles [by Alexander Pope and Fortescue]
Proposals for printing a very curious discourse [by John Arbuthnot and Jonathan Swift]
A letter to a very young lady on her marriage [by Jonathan Swift]
Thoughts on various subjects [by Jonathan Swift]

Edition Notes

"Also attributed to Jonathan Swift." - Evans, Amer. bibl.

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Other Titles
History of John Bull., Key to the lock., Famous prediction of Merlin., Wonderful prophecy taken from the mouth of the spirit of a person who was barbarously slain by the Mohocks., Meditation upon a broom-stick., Art of political lying.

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1 p.l., 5-288 p.
Number of pages
288

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OL62220814M
OCLC/WorldCat
77954194

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OL45700993W

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