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Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting (1706) is the title of a satirical essay by Jonathan Swift (1667–1745). It also has appeared under the title Thoughts on Various Subjects . It consists of a series of short epigrams or apothegms with no particular connections between them.
1744 title page of Swift's Three Sermons. Jonathan Swift, as Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, produced many sermons during his tenure from 1713 to 1745. [1] Although Swift is better known today for his secular writings such as Gulliver's Travels, A Tale of a Tub or the Drapier's Letters, Swift was known in Dublin for his sermons that were delivered every fifth Sunday.
A painting of Jonathan Swift. Swift's essay is widely held to be one of the greatest examples of sustained irony in the history of English literature.Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states: "A young healthy child ...
Christians believe that when a person dies, their soul goes eternally to heaven or hell. How did they come to believe that? Op-Ed: How Christians came to believe in heaven, hell and the immortal soul
These days, you can get a deal on anything. Even salvation! Pope Benedict has announced that his faithful can once again pay the Catholic Church to ease their way through Purgatory and into the ...
English variations on the title include, I know a castle in heaven, castle in the sky, I know there is a castle in heaven, I know of a heavenly stronghold, and, I know a castle in heaven above. The German title is Ich weiß mir ein ewiges Himmelreich or Ich weiß ein ewiges Himmelreich.
Swift sings about carrying the weight of a relationship and learning to move on from an emotionally distant lover so that she, too, doesn’t go down with “the ship.”
Some believe in the possibility of a heaven on Earth in a world to come. Another belief is in an axis mundi or world tree which connects the heavens, the terrestrial world, and the underworld. In Indian religions , heaven is considered as Svargaloka , [ 1 ] and the soul is again subjected to rebirth in different living forms according to its ...