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Zeal is only one manifestation of a disease with which man and society have at all times been consumed - the disease of presump- tion , bred in the lower faculties , conveyed through the febrile imagination .
Zeal is only one manifestation of a disease with which man and society have at all times been consumed - the disease of presump- tion , bred in the lower faculties , conveyed through the febrile imagination .
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Eight months later the English government issued a vaca- tion of Wood's patent , and on 26 August 1725 the Irish council met and proclaimed the joyful news . Swift had been at work that summer upon another Letter - An Humble Address to ...
Eight months later the English government issued a vaca- tion of Wood's patent , and on 26 August 1725 the Irish council met and proclaimed the joyful news . Swift had been at work that summer upon another Letter - An Humble Address to ...
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To the dogmas of Christianity Lahontan opposes natural religion ; to the corruptions of civilization , natural morality . The savages are not without religious consciousness , for nature has given them a percep- tion of the divine ...
To the dogmas of Christianity Lahontan opposes natural religion ; to the corruptions of civilization , natural morality . The savages are not without religious consciousness , for nature has given them a percep- tion of the divine ...
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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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