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CHAPTER I THE FOUR LAST YEARS OF QUEEN ANNE 1 On the last day of August 1710 a sudden decision by the Irish bishops snatched Swift from the obscurity in which he had been passing his days since his last return to Ireland ...
CHAPTER I THE FOUR LAST YEARS OF QUEEN ANNE 1 On the last day of August 1710 a sudden decision by the Irish bishops snatched Swift from the obscurity in which he had been passing his days since his last return to Ireland ...
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... to vote the revenues prescribed by the English government , whereupon it was prorogued before it could become contumelious . Finally , in 1720 the English parliament passed an act asserting its absolute right to THE IRISH PATRIOT 249.
... to vote the revenues prescribed by the English government , whereupon it was prorogued before it could become contumelious . Finally , in 1720 the English parliament passed an act asserting its absolute right to THE IRISH PATRIOT 249.
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English parliament passed an act asserting its absolute right to make laws binding on Ireland . These legislative disabilities , however , were quite over- shadowed by the commercial restrictions . Up to the time of the Restoration ...
English parliament passed an act asserting its absolute right to make laws binding on Ireland . These legislative disabilities , however , were quite over- shadowed by the commercial restrictions . Up to the time of the Restoration ...
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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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