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Politics of Author:
"From Whig to Tory"
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Genre:
"Prose Fiction"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Religion of Author:
"Church of Ireland"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Fire"
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Date: May 10, 1704
"Besides, there is something individual in human minds that easily kindles at the accidental approach and collision of certain circumstances, which, though of paltry and mean appearance, do often flame out into the greatest emergencies of life."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)