Laws are like Cobwebs, which may catch small Flies, but let Wasps…

Swift, Jonathan. "A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind." Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises: Polite Conversation, Directions Servants and Other Works, edited by Valerie Rumbold. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Swift, Jonathan. A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind. London: John Morphew, 1711.

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