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Pagina 171
Much of his work is simply a refutation of the old maxim that human beings are endowed with reason . Looking at the religious and political divisions of the world , Swift saw that these were mostly about matters of secondary importance ...
Much of his work is simply a refutation of the old maxim that human beings are endowed with reason . Looking at the religious and political divisions of the world , Swift saw that these were mostly about matters of secondary importance ...
Pagina 172
The awful picture of the Struldbrugs in The Voyage to Laputa , is an attack not on human follies , but on the conditions of human life . The miserable creatures who cannot die are a dreadful caricature of mankind , and the description ...
The awful picture of the Struldbrugs in The Voyage to Laputa , is an attack not on human follies , but on the conditions of human life . The miserable creatures who cannot die are a dreadful caricature of mankind , and the description ...
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“ It has the life and soul in it of fifty human beings , ” said Leigh Hunt of Dickens's face ; and the face was the index of the mind . His good characters , indeed , are not often convincing ; but no novelist has such power of ...
“ It has the life and soul in it of fifty human beings , ” said Leigh Hunt of Dickens's face ; and the face was the index of the mind . His good characters , indeed , are not often convincing ; but no novelist has such power of ...
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