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To all who question his anger and his satiric barbs , his reply is consistently an admirable apologia of his profession , a defense of virtue , a statement of moral purpose : Ask you what provocation I have had ?
To all who question his anger and his satiric barbs , his reply is consistently an admirable apologia of his profession , a defense of virtue , a statement of moral purpose : Ask you what provocation I have had ?
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He turns to the moral writing first and finds there certain key points of reference from which to move to larger generalizations about Johnson's themes and techniques . Strange and paradoxical as the language may seem , Johnson had a ...
He turns to the moral writing first and finds there certain key points of reference from which to move to larger generalizations about Johnson's themes and techniques . Strange and paradoxical as the language may seem , Johnson had a ...
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But we must also allow that some part of the seeming harmony in morals may be accounted for from the very nature of ... The admirers and followers of the Alcoran insist on the excellent moral precepts interspersed throughout that wild ...
But we must also allow that some part of the seeming harmony in morals may be accounted for from the very nature of ... The admirers and followers of the Alcoran insist on the excellent moral precepts interspersed throughout that wild ...
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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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