Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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... Body , there can be no dispute ; but examine even the Acquirements of his Mind , you will find them all contribute ... body is inherited from the parents , the soul , far from being im- mortal , is the most impermanent thing of all , the ...
... Body , there can be no dispute ; but examine even the Acquirements of his Mind , you will find them all contribute ... body is inherited from the parents , the soul , far from being im- mortal , is the most impermanent thing of all , the ...
Page 80
... body responds to external stimuli without any consciousness being necessarily involved ; he believed animals to be ... body : if the body is a machine which obeys the natural physical laws and no other , what place is there in it for an ...
... body responds to external stimuli without any consciousness being necessarily involved ; he believed animals to be ... body : if the body is a machine which obeys the natural physical laws and no other , what place is there in it for an ...
Page 84
... body is simply a collection of functions , excreting , spitting , belching , snuffling , ejaculating . There is nothing disgusting about any of these functions . But when the body of man is described insistently and solely in terms of ...
... body is simply a collection of functions , excreting , spitting , belching , snuffling , ejaculating . There is nothing disgusting about any of these functions . But when the body of man is described insistently and solely in terms of ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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