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Page 74
... Understanding and fmooth Language . These therefore have only certain Heads , which they are as eloquent upon as they can , and may be called Embellishers ; the o- thers repeat only what they hear from others as literally as their Parts ...
... Understanding and fmooth Language . These therefore have only certain Heads , which they are as eloquent upon as they can , and may be called Embellishers ; the o- thers repeat only what they hear from others as literally as their Parts ...
Page 80
... Understanding is to be prefer'd . Life hangs heavily in the re- peated Converfation of one who has no Imagination to be fired at the feveral Occafions and Objects which come be- fore him , or who cannot ftrike out of his Reflections new ...
... Understanding is to be prefer'd . Life hangs heavily in the re- peated Converfation of one who has no Imagination to be fired at the feveral Occafions and Objects which come be- fore him , or who cannot ftrike out of his Reflections new ...
Page 145
... Understanding . If we examine the Idea we have of the incompre- ' henfible Supreme Being , we fhall find , ' that we come by it the fame way ; and that the complex Ideas < We have both of God and feparate Spi- rits , are made up of the ...
... Understanding . If we examine the Idea we have of the incompre- ' henfible Supreme Being , we fhall find , ' that we come by it the fame way ; and that the complex Ideas < We have both of God and feparate Spi- rits , are made up of the ...
Page 242
... Understanding is able to deduce from the Syftem of a Human Body . BUT to return to our Speculations on Anatomy . I fhall here confider the Fabrick and Texture of the Bodies of Animals Animals in one particular View ; which , in my 242 ...
... Understanding is able to deduce from the Syftem of a Human Body . BUT to return to our Speculations on Anatomy . I fhall here confider the Fabrick and Texture of the Bodies of Animals Animals in one particular View ; which , in my 242 ...
Page 269
... if he had the greatest Obligations , and uses me with a Diftinction that is not to be expected from one fo much my Superior in Fortune , Years , and Un M 3 Understanding . He infinuates , as if I had a N ° 546. The SPECTATOR 26.9.
... if he had the greatest Obligations , and uses me with a Diftinction that is not to be expected from one fo much my Superior in Fortune , Years , and Un M 3 Understanding . He infinuates , as if I had a N ° 546. The SPECTATOR 26.9.
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