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... truth , and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions . Prudence and justice are virtues and ex- cellences of all times and of all places ; we are per- petually 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 ex- cellences of all times and of all places ; we are per- petually moralists , but we are geometricians only by chance . Our intercourse ...
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... truth , by calling imag- ination to the help of reason . Epic poetry under- takes to teach the most important truths by the most pleasing precepts , and therefore relates some great event in the most affecting manner . History must ...
... truth , by calling imag- ination to the help of reason . Epic poetry under- takes to teach the most important truths by the most pleasing precepts , and therefore relates some great event in the most affecting manner . History must ...
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Samuel Johnson. And spite of pride , and in thy reason's spite , One truth is clear , whatever is , is right : " " but having afterwards discovered , or been shown , that the " truth " which subsisted " in spite of reason " could not be ...
Samuel Johnson. And spite of pride , and in thy reason's spite , One truth is clear , whatever is , is right : " " but having afterwards discovered , or been shown , that the " truth " which subsisted " in spite of reason " could not be ...
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The Satirical Letters of St Jerome | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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