The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1936 - 398 pages |
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... Dublin , a posthumous child , son of English parents who had settled in Ireland : The Rev. Thomas Swift ( 1595- 1658 ) married . vicar of Goodrich , in Hereford- shire ; a stout resister of the roundheads during the Civil Wars . Many ...
... Dublin , a posthumous child , son of English parents who had settled in Ireland : The Rev. Thomas Swift ( 1595- 1658 ) married . vicar of Goodrich , in Hereford- shire ; a stout resister of the roundheads during the Civil Wars . Many ...
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... Dublin - now a city of exultant whigs - who did not feel a savage joy at the powerless state to which the once mighty champion of Oxford's ministry had now been reduced . But Swift was indifferent alike to the coldness of those who had ...
... Dublin - now a city of exultant whigs - who did not feel a savage joy at the powerless state to which the once mighty champion of Oxford's ministry had now been reduced . But Swift was indifferent alike to the coldness of those who had ...
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... Dublin at this time a number of well - informed men who were eager to advance the new science , and in 1683 the Dublin Philosophical Society was founded for the purpose of advancing the work of the Royal Society in London . Trinity ...
... Dublin at this time a number of well - informed men who were eager to advance the new science , and in 1683 the Dublin Philosophical Society was founded for the purpose of advancing the work of the Royal Society in London . Trinity ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
Copyright | |
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