The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D. D. - Volume IX; Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D. D. - Volume IX; Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer
                                            
                            By Jonathan Swift
                            
                                24 Sep, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        FROM THE INTRODUCTION..........Swift has been styled the Prince of Journalists. Like most titles whose aim is to express in modern words the character and achievements of a man of a past age, this phrase is not of the happiest. Applied to so extraord
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                                                FROM THE INTRODUCTION..........Swift has been styled the Prince of Journalists. Like most titles whose aim is to express in modern words the character and achievements of a man of a past age, this phrase is not of the happiest. Applied to so extraordinary a man as Jonathan Swift, it is both misleading and inadequate. At best it embodies but a half-truth. It belongs to that class of phrases which, in emphasizing a particular side of the character, sacrifices truth to a superficial cleverness, and so does injustice to the character as a whole. The vogue such phrases obtain is thus the measure of the misunderstanding that is current; so that it often becomes necessary to receive them with caution and to test them with care. Less