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This meant enclosures of land on a great scale with the resultant hardships to the tenant farmers , who were sacrificed in order that cultivated land might be turned into the more profitable sheep - walks . As later events were to prove ...
This meant enclosures of land on a great scale with the resultant hardships to the tenant farmers , who were sacrificed in order that cultivated land might be turned into the more profitable sheep - walks . As later events were to prove ...
Page 252
In the face of the English legislation against the woollen industry , the land - owners persisted in retaining their sheep - walks and even enlarging them , and as a consequence the dearth of tillage was acute and land rents were ...
In the face of the English legislation against the woollen industry , the land - owners persisted in retaining their sheep - walks and even enlarging them , and as a consequence the dearth of tillage was acute and land rents were ...
Page 325
Not so the contrasts which assail him when , banished by decree from Houy- hnhnm - land , he is forced back to human society . Well be- fore his ostracism he has come to a full realization of his own physical and moral repulsiveness ...
Not so the contrasts which assail him when , banished by decree from Houy- hnhnm - land , he is forced back to human society . Well be- fore his ostracism he has come to a full realization of his own physical and moral repulsiveness ...
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Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
Copyright | |
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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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