Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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Page 70
... Reason , Politicks , Eloquence , or Knowledge ; I lay my Memorandums before me , and insert them with a wonderful Facility of Application . So , we are never allowed to be quite certain of the precise purport of the arguments the ...
... Reason , Politicks , Eloquence , or Knowledge ; I lay my Memorandums before me , and insert them with a wonderful Facility of Application . So , we are never allowed to be quite certain of the precise purport of the arguments the ...
Page 77
... Reason , and his misuse of Reason to destroy moral sense : Not so with Us , who pretending by the Lines and Measures of our Reason , to extend the Dominion of one invisible Power , and contract that of the other , have discovered a ...
... Reason , and his misuse of Reason to destroy moral sense : Not so with Us , who pretending by the Lines and Measures of our Reason , to extend the Dominion of one invisible Power , and contract that of the other , have discovered a ...
Page 128
... reason is given the shape of a horse while brutish passion is still recognizable as man . Gulliver is faced with a choice of identification : he chooses reason and is rejected by it , rejects brutishness and yet is accepted by it . The ...
... reason is given the shape of a horse while brutish passion is still recognizable as man . Gulliver is faced with a choice of identification : he chooses reason and is rejected by it , rejects brutishness and yet is accepted by it . The ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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