Book: The Battle Of The Books While things were in this ferment, discord grew extremely high; hot words passed on both sides, and ill blood was plentifully bred. Here a solitary Ancient, squeezed up among a whole shelf of Moderns, offered fairly to dispute the case, and to prove by manifest reason that the priority was due to them from long possession, and in regard of their prudence, antiquity, and, above all, their great merits toward the Moderns.
Details of Book: The Battle Of The Books Book: The Battle Of The Books
Author: Jonathan Swift
ISBN: 1419153706
ISBN-13: 9781419153709
, 978-1419153709
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: Jun 2004
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Number of Pages: 48
Language: English