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About Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He is best known for Gulliver's Travels, published in 1726, and for the invention of Lilliput, the fictional island at the heart of that book. He wrote with sharp irony and political bite, and his work helped define satire in the Georgian era. He is widely regarded as a major prose author in English literature, with a reputation built on wit, severity, and a clear eye for human folly.
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- “הבערות, העצלות והשחיתות הן ערובות ודאיות לכשירותו של מחוקק.”Jonathan Swift
- “אין שום דבר יציב בעולם, פרט לחוסר-היציבות.”Jonathan Swift
- “חוקים הם כמו קורי-עכביש שמצליחים ללכוד זבובים הקטנים, אך מניחים לצרעות ולדבּוּרים לפרוץ דרכם.”Jonathan Swift
- “לעתים קרובות השאפתנות גורמת לנו לקבל על עצמנו משימות שפלות.”Jonathan Swift
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Books by Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
1966
Miscellaneous Prose
2008