An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2Gregg, 1782 |
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... instances , and those pardonable , has occafioned obscurity . It is hardly to be imagined how much sense , how much thinking , how much ob- servation on human life , is condensed to- gether in a small compass . He was so ac- customed to ...
... instances , and those pardonable , has occafioned obscurity . It is hardly to be imagined how much sense , how much thinking , how much ob- servation on human life , is condensed to- gether in a small compass . He was so ac- customed to ...
Page 61
... instance ; because , in an infinity of things mutually relative , a mind which fees not infinitely , can see nothing fully . This doctrine was inculcated by Plato and the Stoics , but more amply and particularly by the later Platonists ...
... instance ; because , in an infinity of things mutually relative , a mind which fees not infinitely , can see nothing fully . This doctrine was inculcated by Plato and the Stoics , but more amply and particularly by the later Platonists ...
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... instance drawn from real sound , and not from the imaginary music of the spheres . Locke's illustration of this doc- trine , is not only proper but poetical ‡ . " If our sense of hearing were but one thousand times quicker than it is ...
... instance drawn from real sound , and not from the imaginary music of the spheres . Locke's illustration of this doc- trine , is not only proper but poetical ‡ . " If our sense of hearing were but one thousand times quicker than it is ...
Page 123
... purpose , and you build on this admission the neceffity of a future state of re- wards and punishments ; but if you should find , that this future Essay on Man , which he omitted at the instance AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 123.
... purpose , and you build on this admission the neceffity of a future state of re- wards and punishments ; but if you should find , that this future Essay on Man , which he omitted at the instance AND WRITINGS OF POPE . 123.
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Joseph Warton. Essay on Man , which he omitted at the instance of Bishop Berkley , because the Christian dispensation did not come within the compass of his plan . Not that fo pious and worthy a prelate could imagine , that this Platonic ...
Joseph Warton. Essay on Man , which he omitted at the instance of Bishop Berkley , because the Christian dispensation did not come within the compass of his plan . Not that fo pious and worthy a prelate could imagine , that this Platonic ...
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