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Essay On Jonathan Swift: Part II.

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Thackeray, William Makepeace

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Part II.

I am not here, of course, to speak of any man's religious views, except in so far as they influence his literary character, his life, his humour. The most notorious sinners of all those fellow-mortals whom it is our business to discuss - Harry Fielding and Dick Steele, were especially loud, and I believe really fervent, in their expressions of belief; they belaboured freethinkers, and stoned imaginary atheists on all sorts of occasions, going out of their way to bawl their own creed, and persecute their neighbour' s, and if they sinned and stumbled, as they ...

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