The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1936 - 398 pages |
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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 ...
Page 251
... dissenters secured some relief in 1719 , when a Toleration Act was put through , but all of Walpole's later efforts to secure a repeal of the Test were repelled in the upper house in Ireland . Swift's intolerance of the dissenters was ...
... dissenters secured some relief in 1719 , when a Toleration Act was put through , but all of Walpole's later efforts to secure a repeal of the Test were repelled in the upper house in Ireland . Swift's intolerance of the dissenters was ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
Copyright | |
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