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There is in Swift a Dantesque intensity of apprehension which has little to do with his formal thought . The world , he insisted , presents a deceptively fair exterior ; reality , which is not fair but simply real , exists only beneath ...
There is in Swift a Dantesque intensity of apprehension which has little to do with his formal thought . The world , he insisted , presents a deceptively fair exterior ; reality , which is not fair but simply real , exists only beneath ...
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It was sufficient to expose their morals : . . of what use is freedom of thought , if it will not produce freedom of action , which is the sole end , how remote soever in appearance , of all objections against Christianity ?
It was sufficient to expose their morals : . . of what use is freedom of thought , if it will not produce freedom of action , which is the sole end , how remote soever in appearance , of all objections against Christianity ?
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... whig politi- cal philosophy , 109-110 ; theory of the relations of church and state , 129-146 ; attitude towards Harley's tory régime , 197ff .; and the imagi- nary voyage , 296ff .; absence of primitivistic thought in , 298-300 .
... whig politi- cal philosophy , 109-110 ; theory of the relations of church and state , 129-146 ; attitude towards Harley's tory régime , 197ff .; and the imagi- nary voyage , 296ff .; absence of primitivistic thought in , 298-300 .
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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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