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... alluding to Harte's Essay on Rea- son , which Harte thought a lame apology , and hardly serious . With res- pect to what has just been mentioned , that Pope was not acquainted with the opinions of his philosophic guide , on the subject ...
... alluding to Harte's Essay on Rea- son , which Harte thought a lame apology , and hardly serious . With res- pect to what has just been mentioned , that Pope was not acquainted with the opinions of his philosophic guide , on the subject ...
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... allude to the subjects of this Essay , viz . the general Order and Design of Provi- dence ; the Constitution of the Human Mind ; the Origin , Use , and End of the Passions and Affections , both selfish and social ; and the wrong ...
... allude to the subjects of this Essay , viz . the general Order and Design of Provi- dence ; the Constitution of the Human Mind ; the Origin , Use , and End of the Passions and Affections , both selfish and social ; and the wrong ...
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... alludes , whose Virtue , as he says afterwards , is " fix'd as in a frost , Contracted all , retiring to the breast : But strength of mind is EXERCISE , not REST . " Now hear the translator , who is not for mincing matters : " Seroit ...
... alludes , whose Virtue , as he says afterwards , is " fix'd as in a frost , Contracted all , retiring to the breast : But strength of mind is EXERCISE , not REST . " Now hear the translator , who is not for mincing matters : " Seroit ...
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... alludes to Newton's Grecian Chronology , which he reformed on those two sublime conceptions , the difference between the reigns of kings , and the generations of men ; and the position of the colures of the equinoxes and solstices at ...
... alludes to Newton's Grecian Chronology , which he reformed on those two sublime conceptions , the difference between the reigns of kings , and the generations of men ; and the position of the colures of the equinoxes and solstices at ...
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... allude ; when it is certain the Stoics meant only a freedom from strong perturbation , from irrational and ex- cessive agitations of the soul ; and no more.- -Warton . Ver . 101. In lazy apathy ] Adam Smith's account of the Philosophy ...
... allude ; when it is certain the Stoics meant only a freedom from strong perturbation , from irrational and ex- cessive agitations of the soul ; and no more.- -Warton . Ver . 101. In lazy apathy ] Adam Smith's account of the Philosophy ...
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