Jonathan Swift
"This discourse, as it is unquestionably of the same author, so it seems to have been written about the same time, with The Tale of a Tub; I mean the year 1697, when the famous dispute was on foot about ancient and modern learning. The controversy took its rise from an essay of Sir William Temple's upon that subject. At length, there appearing no end of the quarrel, our author tells us that the books in St. James's Library, looking
...Tenemos en castellano a misma palabra para designar dos conceptos tan distintos. Escatología nombra, por una parte, la doctrina de las últimas cosas, es decir, las que conciernen a la destinación eterna de la persona humana (cielo, purgatorio e infierno), y también, universalmente, las que atañen al fin del mundo, la resurrección y la consumación de todas las cosas. Pero, por otra parte, escatología nombra el estudio de los excrementos,
...13) Celtic Poets
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is a witty and insightful satirical novel recounts the history of Lemuel Guliver, "First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships". In his travels Gulliver visits the Land of Lilliput, where he towers over the local inhabitants, the land of Brobdingnag where he is much smaller than the citizens, the floating island of Laputa, infested with fanatical scientists who in their obsession with reason
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