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“ But it is commonly supposed that the Egyptians believed the soul to live as long as the body continued undissolved , and therefore tried this method of eluding death . " " Could the wise Egyptians , said Nekayah , think so grosly of ...
“ But it is commonly supposed that the Egyptians believed the soul to live as long as the body continued undissolved , and therefore tried this method of eluding death . " " Could the wise Egyptians , said Nekayah , think so grosly of ...
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That portion of divinity , that ray Of purest Heaven which lights the public soul Of patriots and of heroes . But , if doomed In powerless humble fortune to repress These ardent risings of the kindling soul , Then , even superior to ...
That portion of divinity , that ray Of purest Heaven which lights the public soul Of patriots and of heroes . But , if doomed In powerless humble fortune to repress These ardent risings of the kindling soul , Then , even superior to ...
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I confess myself to have one of those dull souls that doth not perceive itself always to contemplate ideas ; nor can conceive it any more necessary for the soul always to think , than for the body always to move ; the perception of ...
I confess myself to have one of those dull souls that doth not perceive itself always to contemplate ideas ; nor can conceive it any more necessary for the soul always to think , than for the body always to move ; the perception of ...
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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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