The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftSmith, 1965 - 400 pages |
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Page 54
... political theory . As a political thinker Swift was in no sense original , his sole contribution being the intellectual energy with which he took up contemporary theory , extended its applications , and gave it a statement irresistibly ...
... political theory . As a political thinker Swift was in no sense original , his sole contribution being the intellectual energy with which he took up contemporary theory , extended its applications , and gave it a statement irresistibly ...
Page 110
... political controversy to ear - split- ting pitch , he decried partisanship , insisting that the tories represented a ... political principles surpassed in clarity and nobility those embodied by the politicians whom he served , he ...
... political controversy to ear - split- ting pitch , he decried partisanship , insisting that the tories represented a ... political principles surpassed in clarity and nobility those embodied by the politicians whom he served , he ...
Page 308
... political career . Now that these and other references to the political life of the day have been disclosed by modern scholarship , much of the reader's attention will henceforth be diverted to this subsidiary political theme running ...
... political career . Now that these and other references to the political life of the day have been disclosed by modern scholarship , much of the reader's attention will henceforth be diverted to this subsidiary political theme running ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
N The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
Copyright | |
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