Jonathan Swift in the library
The harvest has not read Jonathan Swift’s own works yet. What it has read is the library that quotes Jonathan Swift: 1 work, 1 citation in all.
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The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of Jonathan Swift is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England A. V. Dicey 1 extended 1 citation
The passage is quoted and used to extend the surrounding argument about the dangers of blind reliance on precedent.
“It is a maxim,” says Gulliver, “among [our] lawyers, that whatever has been done before may legally be done again, and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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