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If we owe regard to the memory of the dead , there is yet more respect to be paid to knowledge , to virtue , and to truth . NO . 117. TUESDAY , APRIL 30 , 1751 A. " Όσσαν επ ' Ολύμπω μέμασαν θέμεν , αυτάρ επ ' " Όσση Πήλιον είνoσίφυλλον ...
If we owe regard to the memory of the dead , there is yet more respect to be paid to knowledge , to virtue , and to truth . NO . 117. TUESDAY , APRIL 30 , 1751 A. " Όσσαν επ ' Ολύμπω μέμασαν θέμεν , αυτάρ επ ' " Όσση Πήλιον είνoσίφυλλον ...
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John Locke , more sophisticated than Hobbes , nevertheless continues the tradition of empiricism , which stresses the primacy of sensation in the process of knowledge , warns about the power of imagination and association , and yet ...
John Locke , more sophisticated than Hobbes , nevertheless continues the tradition of empiricism , which stresses the primacy of sensation in the process of knowledge , warns about the power of imagination and association , and yet ...
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knowledge , or the grounds of those persuasions which are to be found amongst men , so various , different , and wholly contradictory ; and yet asserted somewhere or other with such assurance and confidence , that he that shall take a ...
knowledge , or the grounds of those persuasions which are to be found amongst men , so various , different , and wholly contradictory ; and yet asserted somewhere or other with such assurance and confidence , that he that shall take a ...
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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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