The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, 3. köideA. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, H. Lintot, and C. Bathurst, 1757 |
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... instances , proposed for his adverfaries examination , shew as well the absurdity of their complaints against Order , as the fruitlessness of their enquiries into the arcana of the Godhead . Or afk of yonder argent fields above , Why ...
... instances , proposed for his adverfaries examination , shew as well the absurdity of their complaints against Order , as the fruitlessness of their enquiries into the arcana of the Godhead . Or afk of yonder argent fields above , Why ...
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... instance of one of the effects of Pride , which is the folly of thinking every thing made folely for NOTES . used this School - jargon , we might have suspected that he was not so serious as he should be . - The Reader , as he goes ...
... instance of one of the effects of Pride , which is the folly of thinking every thing made folely for NOTES . used this School - jargon , we might have suspected that he was not so serious as he should be . - The Reader , as he goes ...
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... instance of his fteering ( as he well expresses it in his preface ) be- tween doctrines feemingly opposite : If bis Effay has any merit , he thinks it is in this . And doubtless it is uncommon me- rit to reject the visions and ...
... instance of his fteering ( as he well expresses it in his preface ) be- tween doctrines feemingly opposite : If bis Effay has any merit , he thinks it is in this . And doubtless it is uncommon me- rit to reject the visions and ...
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... instance is poetical and even fublime , but misplaced . He is arguing philosophically in a case that required him to employ the real objects of sense only : and , what is Mark how it mounts , to Man's imperial race , 28 ESSAY ON MAN ...
... instance is poetical and even fublime , but misplaced . He is arguing philosophically in a case that required him to employ the real objects of sense only : and , what is Mark how it mounts , to Man's imperial race , 28 ESSAY ON MAN ...
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... instance in the great Newton wton himself ; whom , when fuperior beings , not long fince , faw capable of unfolding the whole law of Nature , they were in doubt whether the owner of such prodigious fagacity should not be reckoned of ...
... instance in the great Newton wton himself ; whom , when fuperior beings , not long fince , faw capable of unfolding the whole law of Nature , they were in doubt whether the owner of such prodigious fagacity should not be reckoned of ...
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