id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 1090 Swift, Jonathan The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers .txt text/plain 13277 599 73 and the great actions and events of next year particularly related, as By Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. I have long consider'd the gross abuse of astrology in this kingdom, and importance, and I hope I shall seldom mistake the day they will happen; who despise all predictions from the stars, till the year 1686, a man him know, that the account I design to give of next year's events, shall being an account of the death of Mr Partridge, the almanack-maker, upon In the mean time I shall present the publick with a Dr. Partridge, says he, that famous almanack-maker, who died suddenly relates to an article in my predictions, which foretold the death of Mr. Partridge, to happen on March 29, 1708. death, I shall only prove that Mr. Partridge is not alive. predictions, out comes Mr. Partridge's almanack, disputing the point time of this famous conjunction, "Then," says he, "shall men and women ./cache/1090.txt ./txt/1090.txt