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"A Tale of a Tub"
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Date: May 10, 1704
"Others of these professors, though agreeing in the main system, were yet more refined upon certain branches of it; and held that man was an animal compounded of two dresses, the natural and the celestial suit, which were the body and soul; that the soul was the outward, and the body the inward c...
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Date: May 10, 1704
"To instance no more, is not religion a cloak, honesty a pair of shoes worn out in the dirt, self-love a surtout, vanity a shirt, and conscience a pair of breeches, which, though a cover for lewdness as well as nastiness, is easily slipped down for the service of both."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
