The Battle of the Books, and other Short Pieces
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1. Front matter2. INTRODUCTION.3. THE BOOKSELLER TO THE READER.4. THE PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR.5. A FULL AND TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE FOUGHT LAST FRIDAY BETWEEN THE ANCIENT AND THE MODERN BOOKS IN SAINT JAMES’S LIBRARY.6. THE EPISODE OF BENTLEY AND WOTTON.7. A MEDITATION UPON A BROOMSTICK.8. PREDICTIONS FOR THE YEAR 1708.9. THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE FIRST OF MR. BICKERSTAFF’S PREDICTIONS; BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF MR. PARTRIDGE THE ALMANACK-MAKER, UPON THE 29TH INSTANT.10. BAUCIS AND PHILEMON.11. THE LOGICIANS REFUTED.12. THE PUPPET SHOW.13. CADENUS AND VANESSA.14. STELLA’S BIRTHDAY, 1718.15. STELLA’S BIRTHDAY, 1720.16. STELLA’S BIRTHDAY.17. STELLA’S BIRTHDAY, 1724.18. STELLA’S BIRTHDAY, MARCH 13, 1726.19. TO STELLA,20. THE FIRST HE WROTE OCT. 17, 1727.21. THE SECOND PRAYER WAS WRITTEN NOV. 6, 1727.22. THE BEASTS’ CONFESSION (1732).23. AN ARGUMENT TO PROVE THAT THE ABOLISHING OF CHRISTIANITY IN ENGLAND MAY, AS THINGS NOW STAND, BE ATTENDED WITH SOME INCONVENIENCES, AND PERHAPS NOT PRODUCE THOSE MANY GOOD EFFECTS PROPOSED THEREBY.24. HINTS TOWARDS AN ESSAY ON CONVERSATION.25. THOUGHTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS.