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Page xiv
... judgement , they are sure to carry him into their own lobby : he is bound to vote for the methods in which he was trained from his youth up . This is the secret of his contempt for Lycidas and his enthusiasm over the Lock : the ...
... judgement , they are sure to carry him into their own lobby : he is bound to vote for the methods in which he was trained from his youth up . This is the secret of his contempt for Lycidas and his enthusiasm over the Lock : the ...
Page 160
... judgement would probably have been less severe , if his imagination had been more fruitful . It is ridiculous to oppose judgement to imagination ; for it does not appear that men have necessarily less of one as they have more of the ...
... judgement would probably have been less severe , if his imagination had been more fruitful . It is ridiculous to oppose judgement to imagination ; for it does not appear that men have necessarily less of one as they have more of the ...
Page 434
... judgement are calm and serene , not formed by nature to make proselytes , and to controul and lord it over the imaginations of others . But that when an author writes a tragedy , who knows he has neither genius nor judgement , he has ...
... judgement are calm and serene , not formed by nature to make proselytes , and to controul and lord it over the imaginations of others . But that when an author writes a tragedy , who knows he has neither genius nor judgement , he has ...
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