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Page ix
... itself into difrepute . 2. But the wrong explications of this poem have arifen , not from the mifconception of the fubject only , but from an inattention to the ME- THOD of it . The latter was , in part , the genuine confequence of the ...
... itself into difrepute . 2. But the wrong explications of this poem have arifen , not from the mifconception of the fubject only , but from an inattention to the ME- THOD of it . The latter was , in part , the genuine confequence of the ...
Page ix
... itself , a point of curious criticifin , of which little or nothing hath been faid by any good writer , I will take the liberty to enlarge upon it . THE EPISTLE , however various in its appear- ances , is , in fact , but of two kinds ...
... itself , a point of curious criticifin , of which little or nothing hath been faid by any good writer , I will take the liberty to enlarge upon it . THE EPISTLE , however various in its appear- ances , is , in fact , but of two kinds ...
Page x
... itself of all method : For , having only one point in view , it muft of courfe pursue it by fome kind of con- nexion . The progrefs of the mind in rational thinking requires , that the chain be never broken entirely , even in its freeft ...
... itself of all method : For , having only one point in view , it muft of courfe pursue it by fome kind of con- nexion . The progrefs of the mind in rational thinking requires , that the chain be never broken entirely , even in its freeft ...
Page xv
... itself , it must be allowed , of all others , the fitteft to throw light upon a difficult and obfcure fubject , and , above all , to convey an exact idea of the scope and order of any work . It hath , accordingly , been fo confidered by ...
... itself , it must be allowed , of all others , the fitteft to throw light upon a difficult and obfcure fubject , and , above all , to convey an exact idea of the scope and order of any work . It hath , accordingly , been fo confidered by ...
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... itself wears the appearance of a virtue , and fo writers [ from 1. 23 to 25 ] come to tranfgrefs the rule of right from their very ambition to obferve it . There are two cafes , in which this ambition remarkably misleads us . The В 2 ...
... itself wears the appearance of a virtue , and fo writers [ from 1. 23 to 25 ] come to tranfgrefs the rule of right from their very ambition to obferve it . There are two cafes , in which this ambition remarkably misleads us . The В 2 ...
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