The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1936 - 398 pagina's |
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... land and a city at this moment unsafe for Englishmen . Whereas the Revolution of 1688 had in England been effected quickly , surely , and in the face of only the feeblest opposition , events in Ireland were taking quite another turn ...
... land and a city at this moment unsafe for Englishmen . Whereas the Revolution of 1688 had in England been effected quickly , surely , and in the face of only the feeblest opposition , events in Ireland were taking quite another turn ...
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... land on a great scale with the resultant hardships to the tenant farmers , who were sacrificed in order that cultivated land might be turned into the more profitable sheep - walks . As later events were to prove , the great increase of ...
... land on a great scale with the resultant hardships to the tenant farmers , who were sacrificed in order that cultivated land might be turned into the more profitable sheep - walks . As later events were to prove , the great increase of ...
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... land - owners persisted in retaining their sheep - walks and even enlarging them , and as a consequence the dearth of tillage was acute and land rents were enormously high . The miserable cottier who worked the soil and lived in his ...
... land - owners persisted in retaining their sheep - walks and even enlarging them , and as a consequence the dearth of tillage was acute and land rents were enormously high . The miserable cottier who worked the soil and lived in his ...
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CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
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