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I have heard it affirmed for certain by some very old people , that the contrary opinion was even in their memories as ... are now grown as much ashamed of it as their betters ; opinions , like fashions , always descending from those of ...
I have heard it affirmed for certain by some very old people , that the contrary opinion was even in their memories as ... are now grown as much ashamed of it as their betters ; opinions , like fashions , always descending from those of ...
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Thus it happens when wrong opinions are entertained , that they mutually destroy each other , and leave the mind open to truth . ” “ I did not expect , answered the princess , to hear that imputed to falshood which is the consequence ...
Thus it happens when wrong opinions are entertained , that they mutually destroy each other , and leave the mind open to truth . ” “ I did not expect , answered the princess , to hear that imputed to falshood which is the consequence ...
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It is therefore worth while to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge , and examine by what measures , in things whereof we have no certain knowledge , we ought to regulate our assent , and moderate our persuasions .
It is therefore worth while to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge , and examine by what measures , in things whereof we have no certain knowledge , we ought to regulate our assent , and moderate our persuasions .
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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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