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However , the arm of public benevolence is not shortened ; and there are often several means to the same end . What Nature has disjoined in one way wisdom may unite in another . When we cannot give the benefit as we would wish , let us ...
However , the arm of public benevolence is not shortened ; and there are often several means to the same end . What Nature has disjoined in one way wisdom may unite in another . When we cannot give the benefit as we would wish , let us ...
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A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation . Without such means it might even risk the loss of that part of the constitution which it wished the most religiously to preserve .
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation . Without such means it might even risk the loss of that part of the constitution which it wished the most religiously to preserve .
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You are not to imagine that I mean to open to you at large , or to recommend to your research , the whole of this vast ... which we form to ourselves upon a supposition of what ought in reason to be the end or means of art , independent ...
You are not to imagine that I mean to open to you at large , or to recommend to your research , the whole of this vast ... which we form to ourselves upon a supposition of what ought in reason to be the end or means of art , independent ...
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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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