Unit One
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1
Text A Of
Envy..........................................................................................1
Text B Of Friendship
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Unit Two
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17
Text A From An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
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Preface to The Fables, Ancient and Modern
..............................19
Text B On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
....................................25
Unit Three
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31
Text A A Modest Proposal
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Text B A Treatise on Good Manners and Good
Breeding ......................43
Unit Four
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49
Text A The Folly of Discontent with One’s
Own Lot ...............................49
Text B Party Patches
..............................................................................56
Unit Five
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61
Text A On National Prejudices
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Text B The Citizen of the World
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Unit Six
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72
Text A Conversation
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Text B First Meeting with Johnson
.........................................................78
Unit Seven
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84
Text A Common
Sense...........................................................................84
Text B Inaugural Address
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Unit Eight
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97
Text A Modern Gallantry
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Text B In Praise of Chimney-sweepers
................................................104
Unit Nine
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Text A On the Ignorance of the Learned
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Text B On a Landscape of Nicolas Poussin
.........................................126
Unit Ten
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133
Text A The Literature of Knowledge and the
Literature of Power .........133
Text B Beauty
.......................................................................................144
Unit Eleven
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150
Text A Evening Parties
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Text B Middlebrow
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Unit Twelve
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164
Text A Tradition and the Individual Talent
.............................................164
Text B Heine and the Philistines
...........................................................176
Unit Thirteen
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182
Text A Refl ections on Gandhi
...............................................................182
Text B On Being Modern-minded
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Unit Fourteen ...................................................................................
200
Text A Good Readers and Good Writers
..............................................200
Text B About Reading Books
................................................................210