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Marveling at the diversity of nature in his Discours de la méthode of 1637 , he “ ... believed it to be impossible for the human mind to distinguish the forms or species of bodies that are upon the earth , from an infinity of others ...
Marveling at the diversity of nature in his Discours de la méthode of 1637 , he “ ... believed it to be impossible for the human mind to distinguish the forms or species of bodies that are upon the earth , from an infinity of others ...
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The misdirection of human intelligence , the silly practices of education , the abuses of pedantry are brilliantly satirized in works like Pope's Dunciad and ...
The misdirection of human intelligence , the silly practices of education , the abuses of pedantry are brilliantly satirized in works like Pope's Dunciad and ...
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... and a new concern ( to be discussed at some length later ) with the disarming and debunking of human folly and vice . ... stirring saga of human pride , the enmity that developed between the families of Lady Arabella Fermor and Lord ...
... and a new concern ( to be discussed at some length later ) with the disarming and debunking of human folly and vice . ... stirring saga of human pride , the enmity that developed between the families of Lady Arabella Fermor and Lord ...
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Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
ESSAY ON MAN | 60 |
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| Title | The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical Essays |
| Editor | John L. Mahoney |
| Publisher | D. C. Heath, 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0669023213, 9780669023213 |
| Length | 765 pages |
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