Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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Page 114
... Things , it would be more convenient for all Men to carry about them , such Things as were necessary to express the particular Business they are to discourse on .... many of the most Learned and Wise adhere to the new Scheme of ...
... Things , it would be more convenient for all Men to carry about them , such Things as were necessary to express the particular Business they are to discourse on .... many of the most Learned and Wise adhere to the new Scheme of ...
Page 115
... things or ideas . Today we are all quite used to the idea that coins and notes are not in themselves wealth : they ... things , and its only advantages over other thing as a medium for exchange are that it is small , easily carried , and ...
... things or ideas . Today we are all quite used to the idea that coins and notes are not in themselves wealth : they ... things , and its only advantages over other thing as a medium for exchange are that it is small , easily carried , and ...
Page 186
... things ) have no existence except as sensations vaguely perceived on the outskirts of a reflective consciousness ... things ; but in his satire Swift cultivates the art of seeing things from an extraordinary point of view . Here , in ' A ...
... things ) have no existence except as sensations vaguely perceived on the outskirts of a reflective consciousness ... things ; but in his satire Swift cultivates the art of seeing things from an extraordinary point of view . Here , in ' A ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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