Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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... Christianity : this is the aspect of Christian ortho- doxy which repelled Blake most , and Swift is more deeply affected by it than most orthodox Christians , not because he is more than usually orthodox , but because he was more than ...
... Christianity : this is the aspect of Christian ortho- doxy which repelled Blake most , and Swift is more deeply affected by it than most orthodox Christians , not because he is more than usually orthodox , but because he was more than ...
Page 162
... Christian principles that More is honoured so much as his willingness to oppose tyrannical power to the point of ... Christian and Muslim faiths ; but if all those who copied and adapted them were coarse dolts , the Christian faith is ...
... Christian principles that More is honoured so much as his willingness to oppose tyrannical power to the point of ... Christian and Muslim faiths ; but if all those who copied and adapted them were coarse dolts , the Christian faith is ...
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... Christian virtues - at least in the way that they are felt and seen and experienced by the Christian – Faith , Hope and Love . - Of course not ; Christianity is an irrational system of beliefs , so the Houyhnhnms have no need for it ...
... Christian virtues - at least in the way that they are felt and seen and experienced by the Christian – Faith , Hope and Love . - Of course not ; Christianity is an irrational system of beliefs , so the Houyhnhnms have no need for it ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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