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Jonathan Swift

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(1667-1745)

Essays by Jonathan Swift

Hints towards an essay on conversation

The truest way to understand conversation is to know the faults and errors to which it is subject, and from thence every man to form maxims to himself whereby it may be regulated.

A meditation upon a broomstick

I sighed, and said within myself, “Surely mortal man is a broomstick!”

A modest proposal

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 publick.

Thoughts on various subjects

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

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(1882-1956) Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592) More, Hannah (1745-1833) Morley, Christopher (1890-1957) Morris, Elisabeth (1870-1964) Osler, William (1849-1919) Plato, Ann (1820-?) Repplier, Agnes (1855-1950) Rhys, Grace Little (1865-1929) Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (4-65) Smith, Alexander (1830-1867) Steele, Richard (1672-1729) Stein, Edith (1891-1942) Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894) Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) Temple, William (1628-1699) Tomlinson, H. M. (1873-1958) Twain, Mark (1835-1910) Wharton, Edith (1862-1937) Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797) Zitkala-Ša (1876-1938) Chronological Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (4-65) Kenko, Yoshida (1283-1350) Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592) Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) Clinton, Elizabeth (1575-1638) Cornwallis, William (1579-1614) Howell, James (1594-1666) Felltham, Owen (1602-1668) Browne, Thomas (1605-1682) Hyde, Edward (1609-1674) Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667) Cavendish, Margaret (1623-1673) Culpeper, Thomas (1626-1697) Temple, William (1628-1699) Chudleigh, Mary (1656-1710) Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) Addison, Joseph (1672-1719) Steele, Richard (1672-1729) Haywood, Eliza (1693-1756) Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784) Hume, David (1711-1776) Cowper, William (1731-1800) Goldsmith, Oliver (1735-1774) Barbauld, Anna Laetitia (1743-1825) More, Hannah (1745-1833) Burney, Fanny (1752-1840) Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797) Lamb, Mary (1764-1847) Edgeworth, Maria (1767-1849) Lamb, Charles (1775-1834) Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864) Hazlitt, William (1778-1830) Colton, Charles (1780-1832) Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859) De Quincey, Thomas (1785-1859) Kirkland, Caroline (1801-1864) Martineau, Harriet (1802-1876) Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850) Cooper, Susan Fenimore (1813-1894) Jacobs, Harriet (1813-1897) Plato, Ann (1820-?) Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-1895) Smith, Alexander (1830-1867) Bird, Isabella (1831-1904) Twain, Mark (1835-1910) Howells, William Dean (1837-1920) Hamilton, Gail (1838-1896) Meynell, Alice (1847-1922) Osler, William (1849-1919) Harrison, Jane Ellen (1850-1928) Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894) Repplier, Agnes (1855-1950) Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939) Lee, Vernon (1856-1935) Martin, Edward Sanford (1856-1939) Cooper, Anna Julia (1858-1964) Jerome, Jerome K. (1859-1927) Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860-1935) Jacks, L. P. (1860-1955) Guiney, Louise Imogen (1861-1920) Benson, Arthur (1862-1925) Wharton, Edith (1862-1937) Bly, Nellie (1864-1922) Far, Sui Sin (1865-1914) Rhys, Grace Little (1865-1929) Belloc, Hilaire (1870-1953) Morris, Elisabeth (1870-1964) Tomlinson, H. M. (1873-1958) Chesterton, G. K. (1874-1936) Zitkala-Ša (1876-1938) Marquis, Don (1878-1937) Gerould, Katharine Fullerton (1879-1944) Milne, A. A. (1882-1956) Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965) Barbellion, W. N. P. (1889-1919) Morley, Christopher (1890-1957) Stein, Edith (1891-1942) Women Barbauld, Anna Laetitia (1743-1825)Bird, Isabella (1831-1904)Bly, Nellie (1864-1922)Burney, Fanny (1752-1840)Cavendish, Margaret (1623-1673)Chudleigh, Mary (1656-1710)Clinton, Elizabeth (1575-1638)Cooper, Anna Julia (1858-1964)Cooper, Susan Fenimore (1813-1894)Edgeworth, Maria (1767-1849)Far, Sui Sin (1865-1914)Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850)Gerould, Katharine Fullerton (1879-1944)Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860-1935)Guiney, Louise Imogen (1861-1920)Hamilton, Gail (1838-1896)Harrison, Jane Ellen (1850-1928)Haywood, Eliza (1693-1756)Jacobs, Harriet (1813-1897)Kirkland, Caroline (1801-1864)Lamb, Mary (1764-1847)Lee, Vernon (1856-1935)Martineau, Harriet (1802-1876)Meynell, Alice (1847-1922)More, Hannah (1745-1833)Morris, Elisabeth (1870-1964)Plato, Ann (1820-?)Repplier, Agnes (1855-1950)Rhys, Grace Little (1865-1929)Stein, Edith (1891-1942)Wharton, Edith (1862-1937)Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)Zitkala-Ša (1876-1938)

Essays

by Jonathan Swift A meditation upon a broomstick A modest proposal Hints towards an essay on conversation Thoughts on various subjects