An Essay on ManJ. and P. Knapton, 1755 - 124 pages |
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Page iii
... Effay in this View , he was much mortified whenever he found it confidered in any other ; or as a part and introduction only to a larger work . As appears from the conclufion of his fecond Dia- logue , intitled MDCCXXXVIII , where he ...
... Effay in this View , he was much mortified whenever he found it confidered in any other ; or as a part and introduction only to a larger work . As appears from the conclufion of his fecond Dia- logue , intitled MDCCXXXVIII , where he ...
Page iv
... Effay , fufficiently freed itself from this imputation of wrong Judgment . And how great and continued that demand has been , appears from the vast variety of pi- rated and imperfect Editions continually ob- truded on the world , ever ...
... Effay , fufficiently freed itself from this imputation of wrong Judgment . And how great and continued that demand has been , appears from the vast variety of pi- rated and imperfect Editions continually ob- truded on the world , ever ...
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... Effay has any merit , it is in fteering betwixt the extremes of doctrines feemingly oppofite ; in paffing over terms utterly unintelligible ; and in forming a temperate yet not inconfiftent , and a short yet not im- perfect fyftem of ...
... Effay has any merit , it is in fteering betwixt the extremes of doctrines feemingly oppofite ; in paffing over terms utterly unintelligible ; and in forming a temperate yet not inconfiftent , and a short yet not im- perfect fyftem of ...
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... Effay on Man was only the first book . The 6th , 7th , and 8th lines allude to the fubjects of this Essay , viz . the gene ral Order and Defign of Providence ; the Conftitution of the human Mind ; the origin , use , and end of the B A ...
... Effay on Man was only the first book . The 6th , 7th , and 8th lines allude to the fubjects of this Essay , viz . the gene ral Order and Defign of Providence ; the Conftitution of the human Mind ; the origin , use , and end of the B A ...
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... Effay had afforded him ; and that is the expreffing him- felf ( as here ) in Platonic notions ; which , luckily for his purpose , are highly poetical , at the fame time that they add a grace to the uniformity of his reasoning . VER ...
... Effay had afforded him ; and that is the expreffing him- felf ( as here ) in Platonic notions ; which , luckily for his purpose , are highly poetical , at the fame time that they add a grace to the uniformity of his reasoning . VER ...
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