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I know it is a received doctrine , that men have native ideas and original characters stamped upon their minds in their very first being . This opinion I have at large examined already ; and , I suppose , what I have said in the ...
I know it is a received doctrine , that men have native ideas and original characters stamped upon their minds in their very first being . This opinion I have at large examined already ; and , I suppose , what I have said in the ...
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Though what I have here said may not perhaps make the ideas of pleasure and pain clearer to us than our own experience does , which is the only way that we are capable of having them ; yet the consideration of the reason why they are ...
Though what I have here said may not perhaps make the ideas of pleasure and pain clearer to us than our own experience does , which is the only way that we are capable of having them ; yet the consideration of the reason why they are ...
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the mind looked on and considered there to be a real positive idea in the understanding , as much as any other whatsoever ; though perhaps the cause of it be but a privation in the subject . 2. Thus the ideas of heat and cold , light ...
the mind looked on and considered there to be a real positive idea in the understanding , as much as any other whatsoever ; though perhaps the cause of it be but a privation in the subject . 2. Thus the ideas of heat and cold , light ...
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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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