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Learning and Rome alike in empire grew ; And arts still follow'd where her eagles flew ; From the same foes , at last , both felt their doom , And the same age saw Learning fall , and Rome . With Tyranny , then Superstition join'd ...
Learning and Rome alike in empire grew ; And arts still follow'd where her eagles flew ; From the same foes , at last , both felt their doom , And the same age saw Learning fall , and Rome . With Tyranny , then Superstition join'd ...
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For we must here observe , that all learning was esteemed among them to be compounded from the same principle . b . This is one of the names of Paracelsus ; he was called Christophorus , Theophrastus , Paracelsus , Bumbastus .
For we must here observe , that all learning was esteemed among them to be compounded from the same principle . b . This is one of the names of Paracelsus ; he was called Christophorus , Theophrastus , Paracelsus , Bumbastus .
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XL THE HISTORY OF A MAN OF LEARNING They returned to Cairo , and were so well pleased at finding themselves together , that none of them went much abroad . The prince began to love learning , and one day declared to Imlac , that he ...
XL THE HISTORY OF A MAN OF LEARNING They returned to Cairo , and were so well pleased at finding themselves together , that none of them went much abroad . The prince began to love learning , and one day declared to Imlac , that he ...
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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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