The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftMethuen, 1953 - 400 pages |
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Page 142
... interest much more than our own : If your little finger be sore , and you think a poultice made of our vitals will give it any ease , speak the word and it shall be done ; the interest of our whole kingdom is at any time ready to strike ...
... interest much more than our own : If your little finger be sore , and you think a poultice made of our vitals will give it any ease , speak the word and it shall be done ; the interest of our whole kingdom is at any time ready to strike ...
Page 199
... interest : And this pernicious counsel closed very well with the posture of affairs at that time : For , a set of upstarts , who had little or no part in the Revolution , but valued themselves by their noise and pretended zeal when the ...
... interest : And this pernicious counsel closed very well with the posture of affairs at that time : For , a set of upstarts , who had little or no part in the Revolution , but valued themselves by their noise and pretended zeal when the ...
Page 200
... interest ; yet , whenever their leaders are taken into power , under an ignorant , unactive , or ill - designing prince , will probably , by the assistance of time or force , become the majority , unless they be prevented by a ...
... interest ; yet , whenever their leaders are taken into power , under an ignorant , unactive , or ill - designing prince , will probably , by the assistance of time or force , become the majority , unless they be prevented by a ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
YEARS OF ACTIVITY AND SUSPENSE | 101 |
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