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It is an answer to a book by Tindal , the deist , who repre- sented religion as the imposture of cunning priests and who would free men from this incubus by showing that the church and Christianity are in fact but a contrivance of civil ...
It is an answer to a book by Tindal , the deist , who repre- sented religion as the imposture of cunning priests and who would free men from this incubus by showing that the church and Christianity are in fact but a contrivance of civil ...
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... The History of John Bull.2 Swift no longer regarded peace as a contingency but as a fact assured , and accordingly his interest ... and he flattered himself that he alone combined a full knowl- edge of the facts and the historian's ...
... The History of John Bull.2 Swift no longer regarded peace as a contingency but as a fact assured , and accordingly his interest ... and he flattered himself that he alone combined a full knowl- edge of the facts and the historian's ...
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6 Professor D. Nichol Smith ( The Letters of Swift to Ford , p . xxxii ) has brought to light the fact that Swift was at work on An Enquiry as late as 1721 . 7 See Trevelyan , The age of Queen Anne , III , 98-100 .
6 Professor D. Nichol Smith ( The Letters of Swift to Ford , p . xxxii ) has brought to light the fact that Swift was at work on An Enquiry as late as 1721 . 7 See Trevelyan , The age of Queen Anne , III , 98-100 .
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Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
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| Title | The Mind and Art of Jonathan Swift |
| Author | Ricardo Quintana |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1936 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 398 pages |
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