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... truth , and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions . Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists , but we are geometricians only by chance . Our intercourse with ...
... truth , and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions . Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists , but we are geometricians only by chance . Our intercourse with ...
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... truth , by calling imagination to the help of reason . Epic poetry under- takes to teach the most important truths by the most pleasing precepts , and therefore relates some great event in the most affecting manner . History must supply ...
... truth , by calling imagination to the help of reason . Epic poetry under- takes to teach the most important truths by the most pleasing precepts , and therefore relates some great event in the most affecting manner . History must supply ...
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... truth is clear , whatever is , is right : but having afterwards discovered , or been shown , that the " truth " which subsisted " in spite of reason " could not be very “ clear , ” he substituted : And spite of pride , in erring ...
... truth is clear , whatever is , is right : but having afterwards discovered , or been shown , that the " truth " which subsisted " in spite of reason " could not be very “ clear , ” he substituted : And spite of pride , in erring ...
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From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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