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Page 87
... tion ; tion ; bene- con- very pub- lic fociety , but to be ever ready , according to our rank , to act either the magistrate or the private citizen : that their apathy was no more than a freedom from perturbation , from irrational and ...
... tion ; tion ; bene- con- very pub- lic fociety , but to be ever ready , according to our rank , to act either the magistrate or the private citizen : that their apathy was no more than a freedom from perturbation , from irrational and ...
Page 344
... tion of morality and religion , that I esteem the last part of Swift's Gulliver ( that I mean relative to his Houyhnhnms and Ya- hoos ) to be a worse book to peruse , than those which we forbid , as the most fla- gitious and obfcene ...
... tion of morality and religion , that I esteem the last part of Swift's Gulliver ( that I mean relative to his Houyhnhnms and Ya- hoos ) to be a worse book to peruse , than those which we forbid , as the most fla- gitious and obfcene ...
Page 408
... tion ; not that the author of the Rape of the Lock , and Eloifa , can be thought to want imagination , but because his imagina- tion was not his predominant talent , because he indulged it not , and because he gave not so many proofs of ...
... tion ; not that the author of the Rape of the Lock , and Eloifa , can be thought to want imagination , but because his imagina- tion was not his predominant talent , because he indulged it not , and because he gave not so many proofs of ...
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