| Jason A. Scorza - 2008 - 290 pages
...of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels shares Bierce's antipolitical perspective when he declares, "And, he gave it for his Opinion, that whoever could...his Country, than the whole Race of Politicians put together."54 A heaping helping of antipolitical humor is ladled out every night by late-night comedians.... | |
| Denis Murphy - 2007
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| Joseph Theodoor Leerssen - 2006 - 313 pages
...wise King of Brobdingnag exclaims: That whoever could make two Ears of Corn, or two Blades of Grass grow upon a Spot of Ground, where only one grew before;...his Country, than the whole Race of Politicians put together.79 By the later eighteenth century, Patriotism will be a stand-in term for Republicanism,... | |
| Justin McCarthy - 2007 - 456 pages
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