The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers

by

Jonathan Swift

eBooks@Adelaide
2004


Table of Contents

Predictions for the year 1708

Wherein the month, and day of the month are set down, the persons named, and the great actions and events of next year particularly related, as will come to pass.

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, in a letter to a person of honour.

An Elegy on the supposed Death of Partridge, the Almanack–Maker.


An Epitaph on Partridge.


’Squire Bickerstaff detected;

by John Partridge

A vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq; against what is objected to him by Mr. Partridge in his almanack for the present year 1709.


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

 


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