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"Restoration"
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"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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"Church of Ireland"
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Work title:
"A Tale of a Tub"
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Date: May 10, 1704
"And whereas the mind of man, when he gives the spur and bridle to his thoughts, does never stop, but naturally sallies out into both extremes of high and low, of good and evil, his first flight of fancy commonly transports him to ideas of what is most perfect, finished, and exalted, till, having...
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)