Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ...: With Specimens of the Principal Writers, Volume 3C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... essay ; but , whether it was that years had abated his powers , or that he had a worse cause to defend , or merely that the public taste was changed , he gained much less applause for his dia- lectic skill on this than on most former ...
... essay ; but , whether it was that years had abated his powers , or that he had a worse cause to defend , or merely that the public taste was changed , he gained much less applause for his dia- lectic skill on this than on most former ...
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... Essay on the Ideal World , published in two parts in 1701 and 1702. He is also the author of a volume of religious poetry , of rather a feeble character , which has been often reprinted . Bishop Spratt , though a clergyman , and a ...
... Essay on the Ideal World , published in two parts in 1701 and 1702. He is also the author of a volume of religious poetry , of rather a feeble character , which has been often reprinted . Bishop Spratt , though a clergyman , and a ...
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... Essay , and his first Letter on Toleration , both also in French , in the same pub- lication for 1687 and 1688 , had published nothing in English , or with his name , till he produced in 1690 the work which has ever since made him one ...
... Essay , and his first Letter on Toleration , both also in French , in the same pub- lication for 1687 and 1688 , had published nothing in English , or with his name , till he produced in 1690 the work which has ever since made him one ...
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... Essay was the first work , per- haps in any language , which professedly or systematically attempted to popularise metaphysical philosophy . The author's persuasion evidently is , that there is nothing more difficult to comprehend , or ...
... Essay was the first work , per- haps in any language , which professedly or systematically attempted to popularise metaphysical philosophy . The author's persuasion evidently is , that there is nothing more difficult to comprehend , or ...
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... Essay on Human Understanding will , never- theless , always be recognised as not only an illustrious monument of the penetration , ingenuity , and other high mental powers and resources of its author , but as a fundamental book in ...
... Essay on Human Understanding will , never- theless , always be recognised as not only an illustrious monument of the penetration , ingenuity , and other high mental powers and resources of its author , but as a fundamental book in ...
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