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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Gender of Author:
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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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Religion of Author:
"Church of Ireland"
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Genre:
"Prose"
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Work title:
"The Discourses"
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Date: 1704
"Upon these and the like reasons, certain objectors pretend to put it beyond all doubt that there must be a sort of preternatural spirit, possessing the heads of the modern saints; and some will have it to be the heat of zeal working upon the dregs of ignorance, as othe...
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: 1704
"Some again think that when our earthly tabernacles are disordered and desolate, shaken and out of repair, the spirit delights to dwell within them, as houses are said to be haunted, when they are forsaken and gone to decay."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)