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Another inconvenience of Milton's design is that it requires the description of what cannot be described , the agency of spirits . He saw that immateriality supplied no images , and that he could not show angels acting but by ...
Another inconvenience of Milton's design is that it requires the description of what cannot be described , the agency of spirits . He saw that immateriality supplied no images , and that he could not show angels acting but by ...
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The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly , and with an higher and more stubborn spirit , attached to liberty , than those to the northward . Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were ...
The fact is so ; and these people of the southern colonies are much more strongly , and with an higher and more stubborn spirit , attached to liberty , than those to the northward . Such were all the ancient commonwealths ; such were ...
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I do not mean to commend either the spirit in this excess , or the moral causes which produce it . Perhaps a more smooth and accommodating spirit of freedom in them would be more acceptable to us . Perhaps ideas of liberty might be ...
I do not mean to commend either the spirit in this excess , or the moral causes which produce it . Perhaps a more smooth and accommodating spirit of freedom in them would be more acceptable to us . Perhaps ideas of liberty might be ...
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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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