The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftMethuen, 1953 - 400 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 137
... positions relative to one an- other which the church and the state had occupied in Eng- land during successive ... position regarding church and state , and the result was anything but a liberalizing of its previous views . In the ...
... positions relative to one an- other which the church and the state had occupied in Eng- land during successive ... position regarding church and state , and the result was anything but a liberalizing of its previous views . In the ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
YEARS OF ACTIVITY AND SUSPENSE | 101 |
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