Laurence Sterne: The Making of a Humorist, 1713-1762 |
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... John Locke . Recalling many years later his experiences at school and college in ' the hopes of doing the world good by ridiculing ' , among other instances of folly , what he considered ' of disservice to sound learning ' , he would ...
... John Locke . Recalling many years later his experiences at school and college in ' the hopes of doing the world good by ridiculing ' , among other instances of folly , what he considered ' of disservice to sound learning ' , he would ...
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... Locke ... whose glory was to free the world from the lumber of a thousand errors ' , Sterne's novel reveals the all ... John Locke . But although Sterne accepted Locke's general principles , he was , all the same , ready to challenge his ...
... Locke ... whose glory was to free the world from the lumber of a thousand errors ' , Sterne's novel reveals the all ... John Locke . But although Sterne accepted Locke's general principles , he was , all the same , ready to challenge his ...
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... John Locke , who mistrusted the emotions as so many sources of error , and for whom intuition mainly consisted in perceiving that ' white is not black , that a circle is not a triangle , that three are more than two ' , had something in ...
... John Locke , who mistrusted the emotions as so many sources of error , and for whom intuition mainly consisted in perceiving that ' white is not black , that a circle is not a triangle , that three are more than two ' , had something in ...
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