Jonathan swift

This essay is the second of two distilled from a lecture series on Jonathan Swift given by Dr. Abigail Williams of the University of Oxford and adapted for the Great Writers Inspire Project by Kate…

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Scientist, Astronomer. Born in Uppsala, Sweden, he was an astronomer, physicist and mathematician noted for developing the temperature scale used in almost all scientific work. Celsius' fixed scale for measuring temperature defines zero degrees as the temperature at which water freezes and 100 degrees as the...

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Untangling the facts and fictions of Jonathan Swift’s life

Swift’s intellectual roots lay in the rationalism that was characteristic of late 17th-century England. This rationalism, with its strong moral sense, its emphasis on common sense, and its distrust of emotionalism, gave him the standards by which he appraised human conduct.

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

One of his best known work in Ireland

"Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees who kill themselves in stinging others." Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's travels - Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift was an Irish author and satirist. Best known for writing 'Gulliver's Travels,' he was dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin.

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“Civility,” Keith Thomas notes, “was (and is) a slippery and unstable word.” “Civil” and “civilian” evoke the social life of a people not under military rule, the world of the civitas—the organized community—the only place, according to Aristotle and Cicero, where the good life is possible. While “courtesy” relates to the values of the court, “civility,” Thomas writes, is “the virtue of citizens”: in his Dictionary (1755), Samuel Johnson defined it as both “politeness” and “the state of…

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels Penguin English Library EL22, 1982 Cover: A detail from 'Gulliver presented to the Queen of Brobdingnag' by C.R. Leslie in Petworth House, Sussex

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. | Jonathan Swift Quote

The text of Jonathan Swift's poem 'Cadenus and Vanessa', written for Esther (or Hester) Vanhomrigh, about her love for Swift, presented in a poem. Considered one of Swift's best poems.

A Modest Proposal - Jonathan Swift