The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1936 - 398 pages |
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Page 180
... issued the five pamphlets later known as The History of John Bull . Swift , meanwhile , was slaving away at The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen , - a misleading title , for the piece is entirely concerned with events leading ...
... issued the five pamphlets later known as The History of John Bull . Swift , meanwhile , was slaving away at The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen , - a misleading title , for the piece is entirely concerned with events leading ...
Page 188
... issued at last in dazzling success . It was well that he sensed the triumph to the full ; for from this , their highest point , his own fortunes and those of his party were to be swung rapidly downwards . 1712 was full of signs telling ...
... issued at last in dazzling success . It was well that he sensed the triumph to the full ; for from this , their highest point , his own fortunes and those of his party were to be swung rapidly downwards . 1712 was full of signs telling ...
Page 261
... issued a new patent to an English iron merchant - named William Wood , who was granted the exclusive right to coin such copper money for fourteen years beginning in 1722. It was stipu- lated that the coins were to be issued gradually ...
... issued a new patent to an English iron merchant - named William Wood , who was granted the exclusive right to coin such copper money for fourteen years beginning in 1722. It was stipu- lated that the coins were to be issued gradually ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
Copyright | |
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