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Year

1712

Text

Swift, Jonathan. A proposal for correcting, improving and ascertaining the English [ID D17121].
Er schreibt : "The Chinese have books in their language above two thousand years old, neither have the frequent conquests of the Tartars been able to alter it."

Mentioned People (1)

Swift, Jonathan  (Dublin 1667-1745 Dublin) : Schriftsteller

Subjects

Literature : Occident : Ireland

Documents (1)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1712 Swift, Jonathan. A proposal for correcting, improving and ascertaining the English tongue : in a letter to the most honourable Robert Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, Lord high treasurer of Great Britain. (London : Printed for Benj. Tooke, 1712). (Library of English literature ; 40152). [Enthält eine Eintragung über China].
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/proposal.html.
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