Identifier: illustratedbiogr00sava (find matches)
Title: Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Savage, Charles C., 1820-1907
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: Buffalo, Phinney & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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academy he is sup-posed to have been bound apprentice to a hosier; and he afterward set up forhimself in that line in Freemans Yard, Cornhill: but failing, he had recourseto his pen for a subsistence. In 1695 he was made accountant to the commis-sioners of the glass duty, which office he held till that impost was taken off.In 1701, he produced his True-Born Englishman, a satire, coarse but charac-teristic. The year following appeared his Shortest Way with the Dissenters,for which he was sentenced to the pillory, fined, and imprisoned. He was in-strumental in promoting the union of England and Scotland. In 1713, he wasagain committed to prison for some political pamphlets, but Lord Oxford pro-cured his pardon. In 1715, he published the Family Instructor, a religiousperformance of merit; and in 1719, appeared his admirable Robinson Cru-soe. Defoe wrote a number of other books, among which was a Journal ofth« Plague in 1665, by a supposed witness of it. He died in 1731. 224 DEAN SWIFT.
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DEAN SWIFT. DR. JONATHAN SWIFT, dean of St. Patricks, a celebrated political, satirical,and miscellaneous writer, was born at Dublin, Ireland, in 1667. Of a life sovarious, and so full of business as Swifts, it is difficult to select any part, con-sistent with the limits of this work, that would not rather excite curiosity thangratify it; and this, indeed, in the course of our present labors, we have fre-quently had reason to regret before. Jonathan Swift was the grandson ofThomas Swift, vicar of Goodrich, in Herefordshire, who married ElizabethDryden, aunt of the poet, and by her had six sons. One of these sons, namedJonathan, who was bred an attorney, had married before he went to reside inIreland; and, dying soon after, left his widow pregnant. In this state shewent to live with her brother-in-law, Godwin Swift, an attorney at Dublin,where she gave birth to the subject of this sketch. When Mrs. Swift returnedto her friends in Leicestershire, she left this child to the care of his u

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