The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1953 - 400 pages |
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... period into which he was born . The purpose of the present study is to present what is now known of Swift the writer , and by projecting him against the background of his age to estimate the quali- ties of his mind and art . A word ...
... period into which he was born . The purpose of the present study is to present what is now known of Swift the writer , and by projecting him against the background of his age to estimate the quali- ties of his mind and art . A word ...
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... period they have sometimes been taken , were proof of error . Cognate to reason was the term nature , and this too enforced the idea of conformity to unvarying and uni- versal standards , for nature indicated not that ' nature ' ex ...
... period they have sometimes been taken , were proof of error . Cognate to reason was the term nature , and this too enforced the idea of conformity to unvarying and uni- versal standards , for nature indicated not that ' nature ' ex ...
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... period down through the seventeenth century and illustrated in Swift , which describes human nature as a dualism of reason and the lower faculties , and morality as the triumph of reason . This ethical position , however , did not ...
... period down through the seventeenth century and illustrated in Swift , which describes human nature as a dualism of reason and the lower faculties , and morality as the triumph of reason . This ethical position , however , did not ...
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CHAPTER | 3 |
MOOR PARK AND SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE | 10 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a | 49 |
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