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Literary Period:
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"From Whig to Tory"
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Author name:
"Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)"
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Date: 1704
"They hold also, that these animals are of a constitution extremely cold; that their food is the air we attract, their excrement phlegm; and that what we vulgarly called rheums, and colds, and distillations, is nothing else but an epidemical looseness, to which that little commonwealth is very su...
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Date: May 10, 1704
"Yet this is the first humble and civil design of all innovators in the empire of reason."
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Date: 1726
"Reason alone is sufficient to govern a Rational Creature; which was therefore a Character we had no Pretence to challenge"
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