Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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Page 80
... animals to be entirely governed by such auto- matic responses ; he proposed an elaborate system of co- ordination of bodily activities for these animal automata : the nerves were tubular vessels containing and conveying a ' nervous ...
... animals to be entirely governed by such auto- matic responses ; he proposed an elaborate system of co- ordination of bodily activities for these animal automata : the nerves were tubular vessels containing and conveying a ' nervous ...
Page 128
... animal , but as a deliberate affront to this proud boast , reason is given the shape of a horse while brutish ... animal , ' but nature and reason as Gulliver ex- hibits them are curiously negative , and the reasonable animals appear to ...
... animal , but as a deliberate affront to this proud boast , reason is given the shape of a horse while brutish ... animal , ' but nature and reason as Gulliver ex- hibits them are curiously negative , and the reasonable animals appear to ...
Page 175
... animal rationale , and to show it would be only rationis capax . ' Not a rational animal , but an animal capable of choosing Reason . Once again , Gulliver is in some sense or other our repre- sentative , since he is the only human on ...
... animal rationale , and to show it would be only rationis capax . ' Not a rational animal , but an animal capable of choosing Reason . Once again , Gulliver is in some sense or other our repre- sentative , since he is the only human on ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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