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The works of the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift (Volume 20)
- Reading Level: Paperback
- Binding: Paperback
- No. of Pages: 392
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- Publisher: University of Michigan Library
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- Product Size (W x H x L) inches: 5 x 0.98 x 8
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Source: Product DescriptionThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1772. Excerpt: ... and from thenceforth begin to be called Books of Controversy. In these Books is wonderfully instilled and preserved the Spirit of each Warrior, while he is alive; and after his Death, his Soul transmigrates there to inform them. This at least is the more common Opinion: But, I believe, it is with Libraries, as with other Cœmeteries; where some Philosophers affirm, that a certain Spirit, which they call Brutum Hominis, hovers over the Monument, until the Body is corrupted, and turns to Dufl or to Worms., but then vanisheth or diisolveth: So, we may fay, a restless Spirit haunts over every Book, until Dujl or Worms have seized upon it; which to some may happen in a few Days, but to others later; and therefore, Books of Controversy being of all others haunted by the most disorderly Spirits, have always been confined in a separate Lodge from the rest; and, for fear of mutual Violence against each other, it was thought prudent by our Ancestors to bind them to the Peace with strong Iron Chains. Of which Invention the original Occasion was this: When the Works of Scotus first came out, they were carried to a certain great Library, and had Lodgings appointed them; but this Author was no sooner settled, than he went to visist his Master Aristotle; and there both concerted together to seize Plato by main Force, and turn him out from his antient Station among the Divines, where he had peaceably dwelt near eight hundred Years. The Attempt succeeded, and the two Usurpers have reigned ever since in his Stead: But to maintain Quiet for the future, it was decreed, that all Polemich of the larger Size should be held fast with a Chain. By this Expedient the public Peace of Libraries might certainly have been preserved, if a new Species of controversial Books had not ...
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