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"From Whig to Tory"
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"Thoughts on Various Subjects"
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Date: 1727
"Old Men view best at a distance with the Eyes of their Understanding as well as with those of Nature."
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Date: 1727
"The common Fluency of Speech in many Men, and most Women, is owing to a Scarcity of Matter, and a Scarcity of Words; for whoever is a Master of Language, and hath a Mind full of Ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the Choice of both; whereas common Speakers have only one Set of Ide...
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)