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“Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.”Jonathan Swift — The works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...: With the author's life and character; notes, historical, critical, and explanatory; tables of contents, and indexes. More complete than any preceding edition ... Accurately corrected by the best editions (1768)