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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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Politics of Author:
"From Whig to Tory"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Author name:
"Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)"
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Date: 1704
"A master workman shall blow his nose so powerfully as to pierce the hearts of his people, who were disposed to receive the excrements of his brain with the same reverence as the issue of it."
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Date: 1713
"The Stoical Scheme of Supplying our Wants by lopping off our Desires, is like cutting off our Feet when we want Shoes."
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Date: 1727
"Old Men view best at a distance with the Eyes of their Understanding as well as with those of Nature."
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