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“ Ay , ( said the King , ) that is the publick library . ” His Majesty enquired if he was then writing any thing . He answered , he was not , for he had pretty well told the world what he knew , and must now read to acquire more ...
“ Ay , ( said the King , ) that is the publick library . ” His Majesty enquired if he was then writing any thing . He answered , he was not , for he had pretty well told the world what he knew , and must now read to acquire more ...
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domestic interest of some moment , seriously to consider the solidity of the only principle upon which these gentlemen acknowledge a king of Great Britain to be entitled to their allegiance . This doctrine , as applied to the prince now ...
domestic interest of some moment , seriously to consider the solidity of the only principle upon which these gentlemen acknowledge a king of Great Britain to be entitled to their allegiance . This doctrine , as applied to the prince now ...
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both parties were so little disposed to anything resembling that principle , that at first they were determined to place the vacant crown , not on the head of the Prince of Orange , but on that of his wife Mary , daughter of King James ...
both parties were so little disposed to anything resembling that principle , that at first they were determined to place the vacant crown , not on the head of the Prince of Orange , but on that of his wife Mary , daughter of King James ...
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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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