... , Swift became secretary and chaplain to Lord Berkely, one of the lord justices of Ireland. He remained an active author until he was rendered incapacitated by a stroke in 1742.Though A Modest Proposal was the last of his pamphlets that is still widely read today, he continued through the 1730's to write tracts concerning church and state. In 1742, Swift was declared incapable ... widely in their attempts to explain the judgments of life implied in the voyage to Brobdingnag, and I dare say that not many of its readers would agree offhand in an analysis of the allegorical scheme... The vi...

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