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Unit One ................................................................................................ 1
Text A Of Envy..........................................................................................1
Text B Of Friendship ...............................................................................10
Unit Two .............................................................................................. 17
Text A From An Essay of Dramatic Poesy .............................................17
Preface to The Fables, Ancient and Modern ..............................19
Text B On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth ....................................25
Unit Three ........................................................................................... 31
Text A A Modest Proposal ......................................................................31
Text B A Treatise on Good Manners and Good Breeding ......................43
Unit Four ............................................................................................. 49
Text A The Folly of Discontent with One’s Own Lot ...............................49
Text B Party Patches ..............................................................................56
Unit Five ............................................................................................. 61
Text A On National Prejudices ...............................................................61
Text B The Citizen of the World ..............................................................67
Unit Six ............................................................................................... 72
Text A Conversation ...............................................................................72
Text B First Meeting with Johnson .........................................................78
Unit Seven .......................................................................................... 84
Text A Common Sense...........................................................................84
Text B Inaugural Address .......................................................................92
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Unit Eight ............................................................................................ 97
Text A Modern Gallantry .........................................................................97
Text B In Praise of Chimney-sweepers ................................................104
Unit Nine ............................................................................................112
Text A On the Ignorance of the Learned .............................................. 112
Text B On a Landscape of Nicolas Poussin .........................................126
Unit Ten ............................................................................................ 133
Text A The Literature of Knowledge and the Literature of Power .........133
Text B Beauty .......................................................................................144
Unit Eleven ....................................................................................... 150
Text A Evening Parties .........................................................................150
Text B Middlebrow ................................................................................156
Unit Twelve ....................................................................................... 164
Text A Tradition and the Individual Talent .............................................164
Text B Heine and the Philistines ...........................................................176
Unit Thirteen .................................................................................... 182
Text A Refl ections on Gandhi ...............................................................182
Text B On Being Modern-minded .........................................................194
Unit Fourteen ................................................................................... 200
Text A Good Readers and Good Writers ..............................................200
Text B About Reading Books ................................................................210