Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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Page 100
... lands of the defeated chieftains , dividing them between English ad- venturers , and thus creating a new Protestant ... land was returned to loyalists at the Restoration , though most of it remained in the hands of those 100 Jonathan ...
... lands of the defeated chieftains , dividing them between English ad- venturers , and thus creating a new Protestant ... land was returned to loyalists at the Restoration , though most of it remained in the hands of those 100 Jonathan ...
Page 101
... land changed hands once again , and his supporters lost their lands to the Orangemen , many of whom were neither Irish , English nor Scottish . Even the English protested against this , and once again , in 1700 , land was repossessed by ...
... land changed hands once again , and his supporters lost their lands to the Orangemen , many of whom were neither Irish , English nor Scottish . Even the English protested against this , and once again , in 1700 , land was repossessed by ...
Page 172
... lands on Houyhnhnm Land there are hints that what is being described is Locke's ' State of Nature ' . This is neither the absurd waste land of the Balnibarbian projector , nor is it the neat , ordered , rich , cultivated agricultural land ...
... lands on Houyhnhnm Land there are hints that what is being described is Locke's ' State of Nature ' . This is neither the absurd waste land of the Balnibarbian projector , nor is it the neat , ordered , rich , cultivated agricultural land ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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