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... tion brought on by eating too many apples , but some modern authorities have seen in them the beginning of the brain disease which never wholly left him , and which threw a dark shadow over the closing years of his life . We read little ...
... tion brought on by eating too many apples , but some modern authorities have seen in them the beginning of the brain disease which never wholly left him , and which threw a dark shadow over the closing years of his life . We read little ...
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... tion in London . He became intimate with Somers and several of the Whig leaders , and it is from this time that may be dated that friendship with Addison which , in spite of great differences of political opinion and still greater ...
... tion in London . He became intimate with Somers and several of the Whig leaders , and it is from this time that may be dated that friendship with Addison which , in spite of great differences of political opinion and still greater ...
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... tion , and her feeling is said to have been largely due to a perusal of the " Tale of a Tub . " Sharpe , the Arch- bishop of York , is reported to have brought this great work to her notice , and to have represented the author as a ...
... tion , and her feeling is said to have been largely due to a perusal of the " Tale of a Tub . " Sharpe , the Arch- bishop of York , is reported to have brought this great work to her notice , and to have represented the author as a ...
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... tion from the Whig party occurred . As Mr. Leslie Stephen justly says , Swift " separated from the Whig party when at the height of their power , and separated because he thought them opposed to the Church principles which he advocated ...
... tion from the Whig party occurred . As Mr. Leslie Stephen justly says , Swift " separated from the Whig party when at the height of their power , and separated because he thought them opposed to the Church principles which he advocated ...
Page xxxix
... tion , and all the remonstrances of the ministers and all the entreaties of Lady Masham were unable to overcome the determination of the queen . The charge of scepticism was one which Swift bitterly resented , and there is no class whom ...
... tion , and all the remonstrances of the ministers and all the entreaties of Lady Masham were unable to overcome the determination of the queen . The charge of scepticism was one which Swift bitterly resented , and there is no class whom ...
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