Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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... problem of survival in a hostile world . But whereas Defoe's heroes and heroines struggle to survive against nearly ... problems in a child of six , but in a grown man and an ordained priest is evidence of a terrible and pathetic ...
... problem of survival in a hostile world . But whereas Defoe's heroes and heroines struggle to survive against nearly ... problems in a child of six , but in a grown man and an ordained priest is evidence of a terrible and pathetic ...
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... problems of man , contents himself happily with a problem which is well within his field of understanding , which re- sponds to his accustomed tools of scientific measurement and scholastic inquiry . Almost imperceptibly , then , the ...
... problems of man , contents himself happily with a problem which is well within his field of understanding , which re- sponds to his accustomed tools of scientific measurement and scholastic inquiry . Almost imperceptibly , then , the ...
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... problem which has confronted almost every philosopher who has ever considered the relationship between mind and body : if the body is a machine which obeys the natural physical laws and no other , what place is there in it for an ...
... problem which has confronted almost every philosopher who has ever considered the relationship between mind and body : if the body is a machine which obeys the natural physical laws and no other , what place is there in it for an ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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