The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1953 - 400 pages |
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Page 111
... dissenters , now took the opportunity to introduce a bill forbidding the further practice of occasional conform- ity . To understand the significance of this bill one must go back to the Restoration . The Clarendon Code , enacted ...
... dissenters , now took the opportunity to introduce a bill forbidding the further practice of occasional conform- ity . To understand the significance of this bill one must go back to the Restoration . The Clarendon Code , enacted ...
Page 121
... dissenters touched Swift's most deeply implanted prejudice . Four years previously when his party had opposed the bill against occasional conformity he had been perplexed . All perplexity now vanished before the open assault upon the ...
... dissenters touched Swift's most deeply implanted prejudice . Four years previously when his party had opposed the bill against occasional conformity he had been perplexed . All perplexity now vanished before the open assault upon the ...
Page 142
... dissenters should be free to worship as they choose , but because their dissent is a sign that they deny the gen- eral sense of the nation they must be excluded from all power in the state . This was the intellectual ground of his ...
... dissenters should be free to worship as they choose , but because their dissent is a sign that they deny the gen- eral sense of the nation they must be excluded from all power in the state . This was the intellectual ground of his ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
MOOR PARK AND SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE | 10 |
THE EARLY VERSE | 29 |
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