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... mind . He sent his faculties out upon discovery , into worlds where only imagination can travel , and de- lighted to form new modes of existence , and furnish sentiment and action to superior beings , to trace the counsels of hell , or ...
... mind . He sent his faculties out upon discovery , into worlds where only imagination can travel , and de- lighted to form new modes of existence , and furnish sentiment and action to superior beings , to trace the counsels of hell , or ...
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... mind sinks under them in passive helplessness , con- tent with calm belief and humble adoration . Known truths , however , may take a different ap- pearance , and be conveyed to the mind by a new train of intermediate images . This ...
... mind sinks under them in passive helplessness , con- tent with calm belief and humble adoration . Known truths , however , may take a different ap- pearance , and be conveyed to the mind by a new train of intermediate images . This ...
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... mind , of which the prejudices and partialities are known , and must therefore please , if not by favouring them , by for- bearing to oppose them . To charge those favourable representations which men give of their own minds with the ...
... mind , of which the prejudices and partialities are known , and must therefore please , if not by favouring them , by for- bearing to oppose them . To charge those favourable representations which men give of their own minds with the ...
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The Satirical Letters of St Jerome | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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