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Politics of Author:
"From Whig to Tory"
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Religion of Author:
"Church of Ireland"
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Work title:
"A Fragment"
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Literary Period:
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1704
"The practitioners of this famous art proceed, in general, upon the following fundamental, that the corruption of the senses is the generation of the spirit; because the senses in men are so many avenues to the fort of reason, which, in this operation, is wholly blocked up."
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)