The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1936 - 398 pages |
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Page 62
... position , however , did not occupy the field to the total exclusion of all others . Highly significant variations appeared in time . Descartes , for example , in Les passions de l'âme , though his tone is Stoical , reaches the ...
... position , however , did not occupy the field to the total exclusion of all others . Highly significant variations appeared in time . Descartes , for example , in Les passions de l'âme , though his tone is Stoical , reaches the ...
Page 105
... position which he defined did not call for immediate translation into action ; formally he was still a whig . Every experience , however , which now befell him made it clear that only as a tory was his position unequivocal . His open ...
... position which he defined did not call for immediate translation into action ; formally he was still a whig . Every experience , however , which now befell him made it clear that only as a tory was his position unequivocal . His open ...
Page 251
... position . The Sacramental Test in Ireland , for the retention of which Swift fought so fiercely , went back to 1704 , in which year a bill of the Irish parliament for the suppression of catholics had been supplemented in the Eng- lish ...
... position . The Sacramental Test in Ireland , for the retention of which Swift fought so fiercely , went back to 1704 , in which year a bill of the Irish parliament for the suppression of catholics had been supplemented in the Eng- lish ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
Copyright | |
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