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"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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"Male"
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"Prose Fiction"
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"Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)"
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Date: 1735
"He seemed therefore confident, that instead of Reason, we were only possessed of some Quality fitted to increase our natural Vices; as the Reflection from a troubled Stream returns the Image of an ill-shapen Body, not only larger, but more distorted."
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