The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1953 - 400 pages |
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... Learning , and Some Thoughts upon Reviewing The Essay of Ancient and Modern Learning . This theory is an exten- sion into the historical field of a principle revealed through the ethical study of the individual : man is essentially the ...
... Learning , and Some Thoughts upon Reviewing The Essay of Ancient and Modern Learning . This theory is an exten- sion into the historical field of a principle revealed through the ethical study of the individual : man is essentially the ...
Page 80
... Learning , in which he challenged Temple's disparagements of the moderns , though he made it clear that he was defending modern learning and knowledge , not modern literature , re- garding which he yielded the superiority to antiquity ...
... Learning , in which he challenged Temple's disparagements of the moderns , though he made it clear that he was defending modern learning and knowledge , not modern literature , re- garding which he yielded the superiority to antiquity ...
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... learning and taste . The Battle of the Books was begun ; finished it must have been not long after the appearance in March 1698 of Dr. Bentley's Dis- sertations Examin'd . Now , presumably , Swift returned to his earlier composition ...
... learning and taste . The Battle of the Books was begun ; finished it must have been not long after the appearance in March 1698 of Dr. Bentley's Dis- sertations Examin'd . Now , presumably , Swift returned to his earlier composition ...
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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