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... Human Understanding . " His reading , though his favourite authors are not known , appears to have been sufficiently extensive and multifarious , for his early pieces show with sufficient evidence his knowledge of books . He that is ...
... Human Understanding . " His reading , though his favourite authors are not known , appears to have been sufficiently extensive and multifarious , for his early pieces show with sufficient evidence his knowledge of books . He that is ...
Page 69
... human- ity , and magnanimity . " How the attack was clandestine is not easily perceived , nor how his person is depreciated ; but he seems to have known something of Pope's character , in whom may be discovered an appetite to talk too ...
... human- ity , and magnanimity . " How the attack was clandestine is not easily perceived , nor how his person is depreciated ; but he seems to have known something of Pope's character , in whom may be discovered an appetite to talk too ...
Page 71
... never so contemptible , his inward man is ten times more ridiculous ; it being impossible that his outward form , though it be that of downright monkey , should differ so much from human shape as his unthinking , immaterial part POPE . 71.
... never so contemptible , his inward man is ten times more ridiculous ; it being impossible that his outward form , though it be that of downright monkey , should differ so much from human shape as his unthinking , immaterial part POPE . 71.
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Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Samuel Johnson. much from human shape as his unthinking , immaterial part does from human understanding . " Thus began the hostility between Pope and Dennis , which , though it was suspended for a short ...
Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Samuel Johnson. much from human shape as his unthinking , immaterial part does from human understanding . " Thus began the hostility between Pope and Dennis , which , though it was suspended for a short ...
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... Human characters are by no means constant ; men change by change of place , of fortune , of acquaintance . He who is at one time a lover of pleasure , is at another a lover of money . Those , indeed , who attain any ex- cellence ...
... Human characters are by no means constant ; men change by change of place , of fortune , of acquaintance . He who is at one time a lover of pleasure , is at another a lover of money . Those , indeed , who attain any ex- cellence ...
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