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Nor is mankind so much to blame in his choice thus determining him , if we consider that the debate merely lies between things past and things conceived ; and so the question is only this : whether things that have place in the ...
Nor is mankind so much to blame in his choice thus determining him , if we consider that the debate merely lies between things past and things conceived ; and so the question is only this : whether things that have place in the ...
Page 534
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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If we will disbelieve everything because we cannot certainly know all things , we shall do much - what as wisely as he who ... in despair of knowing any thing ; nor , on the other side , question every thing , and disclaim all knowledge ...
If we will disbelieve everything because we cannot certainly know all things , we shall do much - what as wisely as he who ... in despair of knowing any thing ; nor , on the other side , question every thing , and disclaim all knowledge ...
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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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