The writing was classic Jonathan Swift “A Modest Proposal.” Imagine anyone opposed to funding a voluntary fire company who risk their lives to save lives and...
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this timely book—whose author was born November 30, 1667—is a subtle, richly diversified, ostensibly comic study of human depravity and its various alternatives...
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Patricia Horgan responds to Commissioners Piepkorn and Turnberg voting against a warming shelter for the unhoused.
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KBC 2024, The options of the question - A work by which the author was translated into Gujarati by Hansa Mehta under the name 'Golibar Ni...
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Jonathan Swift had “beat us all to the porch” long ago. Here I excerpt some passages from that essay, published in March of 2012, to direct attention back to...
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In his new biography “Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel,” John Stubbs explores the complex life of the man who penned “Gulliver's Travels.
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A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the...
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Swift believed that humans have an innate capacity for reason, which they fail to use. But did he take the human comedy too seriously?
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Jonathan Swift, the Irish writer behind "Gulliver's Travels," was born in Dublin on November 30, 1667. Here is a look at his life.
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The Harvard professor Leo Damrosch's commanding new biography, “Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World,” does ample justice to a figure for whom religion and...
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