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Pagina 24
... truth , and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions . Prudence and Justice are virtues , and excellences , of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists , but we are geometricians only by chance . Our intercourse ...
... truth , and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions . Prudence and Justice are virtues , and excellences , of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists , but we are geometricians only by chance . Our intercourse ...
Pagina 165
... Truth only for herself . Yet it may easily happen that in- formation may come at a commodious time ; and as truth and interest are not by any fatal necessity at variance , that one may by accident introduce the other . When opinions are ...
... Truth only for herself . Yet it may easily happen that in- formation may come at a commodious time ; and as truth and interest are not by any fatal necessity at variance , that one may by accident introduce the other . When opinions are ...
Pagina 321
... truth is clear , whatever is , is right : but having afterwards discovered , or been shewn , that the truth which subsisted in spite of reason could not be very clear , he substituted And spite of pride , in erring reason's spite . To ...
... truth is clear , whatever is , is right : but having afterwards discovered , or been shewn , that the truth which subsisted in spite of reason could not be very clear , he substituted And spite of pride , in erring reason's spite . To ...
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Milton | 15 |
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison afterwards appears beauties blank verse called censured character Charles Dryden comedy composition Congreve considered Cowley criticism death delight diction diligence dramatick Dryden Dunciad Earl easily elegance endeavoured English English poetry epick epitaph Euripides excellence fancy favour friends genius heroick Homer honour Iliad images imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden judgement Juvenal kind King known labour lady language Latin learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Halifax metaphysical poets Milton mind nature never numbers opinion Paradise Lost passions perhaps Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise preface produced publick published reader reason remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments shew shewn sometimes stanza supposed tell things Thomson thou thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses versification Virgil virtue WILLIAM CONGREVE words write written wrote