Swift on false witness.(Abstracts)(Brief Article)(Critical Essay)

Publication: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900

Publication Date: 22-JUN-04

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Swift's sermon of 1715, "On False Witness," is, compared to previous homilies on "sins of the tongue" (by Isaac Barrow, Robert South, Ezekiel, Hopkins, Peter Newcome), unique in focusing on government informers, in addressing its "Hearers" not as potential liars but as potential victims of lying, and in offering...

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