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Page 51
The world , he insisted , presents a deceptively fair exterior ; reality , which is not fair but simply real , exists only beneath ... The central concept as well as the derivatives just mentioned are all present in Swift's thought .
The world , he insisted , presents a deceptively fair exterior ; reality , which is not fair but simply real , exists only beneath ... The central concept as well as the derivatives just mentioned are all present in Swift's thought .
Page 90
Filling out the Preface is an elaborate disclaimer that the present work is satire , for which indeed the author has neither talent nor inclination : On the other side , I am so entirely satisfied with the whole present Procedure of ...
Filling out the Preface is an elaborate disclaimer that the present work is satire , for which indeed the author has neither talent nor inclination : On the other side , I am so entirely satisfied with the whole present Procedure of ...
Page 380
The last thing which the present writer desires to do is to become bellicose and querulous- as did Craik , for instance - when he finds himself in conflict with other writers over these and similar mysteries .
The last thing which the present writer desires to do is to become bellicose and querulous- as did Craik , for instance - when he finds himself in conflict with other writers over these and similar mysteries .
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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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