The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftMethuen, 1953 - 400 pages |
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Page 17
... philosophy the sciences - natural philosophy he termed them - seemed trivial . The proper concern of man was man , not the ex- ternal world of nature : • as to that part of philosophy which is called natural , I know no end it can have ...
... philosophy the sciences - natural philosophy he termed them - seemed trivial . The proper concern of man was man , not the ex- ternal world of nature : • as to that part of philosophy which is called natural , I know no end it can have ...
Page 42
... philosophy was altogether overshadowed by the philosophy of human conduct . To his contempt for the sciences Swift was not to give full satiric expression until he wrote the third book of Gulliver's Travels , but he was irrevocably ...
... philosophy was altogether overshadowed by the philosophy of human conduct . To his contempt for the sciences Swift was not to give full satiric expression until he wrote the third book of Gulliver's Travels , but he was irrevocably ...
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... Philosophy , he would laugh that a Creature pretending to Reason , should value itself upon the Knowledge of other Peoples Conjectures , and in Things , where that Knowledge , if it were certain , could be of no use . Wherein he agreed ...
... Philosophy , he would laugh that a Creature pretending to Reason , should value itself upon the Knowledge of other Peoples Conjectures , and in Things , where that Knowledge , if it were certain , could be of no use . Wherein he agreed ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
YEARS OF ACTIVITY AND SUSPENSE | 101 |
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