Date: 1704
"They hold also, that these animals are of a constitution extremely cold; that their food is the air we attract, their excrement phlegm; and that what we vulgarly called rheums, and colds, and distillations, is nothing else but an epidemical looseness, to which that little commonwealth is very su...
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: May 10, 1704
"Yet this is the first humble and civil design of all innovators in the empire of reason."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)