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give expression to much that was foremost in the minds of the time . It is consequently worth the effort to estimate with some precision their effect on the secretary who edited many of them . But our conclusion embraces another and a ...
give expression to much that was foremost in the minds of the time . It is consequently worth the effort to estimate with some precision their effect on the secretary who edited many of them . But our conclusion embraces another and a ...
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On the other hand , the comparison rightly re- minds us that the strength of Swift's mind lay not in subtlety or originality but in its firm grasp upon generalities . Had he chosen to work in the French manner , only La Bruyère could he ...
On the other hand , the comparison rightly re- minds us that the strength of Swift's mind lay not in subtlety or originality but in its firm grasp upon generalities . Had he chosen to work in the French manner , only La Bruyère could he ...
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The age of discovery had presented to the European mind the sharp contrast between ' natural ' man and society as found in the Americas and the sophisticated life of the Old World , and although it was some two centuries before the full ...
The age of discovery had presented to the European mind the sharp contrast between ' natural ' man and society as found in the Americas and the sophisticated life of the Old World , and although it was some two centuries before the full ...
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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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