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Swift at once followed up his opening thrust , and in the ensuing year and a half issued a number of pieces in which he ridiculed the proposal to establish a National Bank in Ireland . In 1722 and 1723 there was a noticeable thin- ning ...
Swift at once followed up his opening thrust , and in the ensuing year and a half issued a number of pieces in which he ridiculed the proposal to establish a National Bank in Ireland . In 1722 and 1723 there was a noticeable thin- ning ...
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England , how- ever , took the view that a large issue of copper halfpence and farthings would suffice , and accordingly issued a new patent to an English iron merchant named William Wood , who was granted the exclusive right to coin ...
England , how- ever , took the view that a large issue of copper halfpence and farthings would suffice , and accordingly issued a new patent to an English iron merchant named William Wood , who was granted the exclusive right to coin ...
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But they had not yet been issued , nor had a preface been composed . Not long after Swift's arrival at Twickenham in 1727 , the two authors sat down to write this preface , which is dated 27 May . Before the end of June , Volumes I and ...
But they had not yet been issued , nor had a preface been composed . Not long after Swift's arrival at Twickenham in 1727 , the two authors sat down to write this preface , which is dated 27 May . Before the end of June , Volumes I and ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 3 |
MOOR PARK AND SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE | 10 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a | 49 |
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| Title | The Mind and Art of Jonathan Swift |
| Author | Ricardo Quintana |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1953 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 400 pages |
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