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Deane Swift : Essay on the Life, &c. of Dr Swift

[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1755:] 'How do you like Mr Johnson's Dictionary? I have only seen part of the Preface, which was like himself. I have just been reading Mr Swift's account of the Dean, a book at which I am greatly scandalized. I do not remember ever to have met with so open and shameful a vindication of that species of idolatry which is the absolute ruin of all virtue, the worship of the world.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Carter      Print: Book

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