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Page iv
... seems to have arisen from the practice of ordinary verse - makers in comparatively refined ages , whose timid sensibilities unfit them to shine or struggle among the throng . Pope , indeed , says , " To grottos and to groves we run , To ...
... seems to have arisen from the practice of ordinary verse - makers in comparatively refined ages , whose timid sensibilities unfit them to shine or struggle among the throng . Pope , indeed , says , " To grottos and to groves we run , To ...
Page xi
... the whole , which , where arguments and beauties lie so thick , would swell this prefatory notice into volumes . He seems everywhere to maintain his positions fairly , earnestly , and with consummate EDITOR'S PREFACE . xi.
... the whole , which , where arguments and beauties lie so thick , would swell this prefatory notice into volumes . He seems everywhere to maintain his positions fairly , earnestly , and with consummate EDITOR'S PREFACE . xi.
Page xvii
... seems not improbable that the close and continuous consideration of love and marriage , to which he was led while composing these treatises on divorce , where so much is said of Adam and Eve , and the happiness of Eden , may have ...
... seems not improbable that the close and continuous consideration of love and marriage , to which he was led while composing these treatises on divorce , where so much is said of Adam and Eve , and the happiness of Eden , may have ...
Page xix
... seem , in the least at variance with the practice and opinions of all nations . The difficulty always is to determine when a king has passed the boundary dividing authority from violence , and stepped out of the domain of royalty into ...
... seem , in the least at variance with the practice and opinions of all nations . The difficulty always is to determine when a king has passed the boundary dividing authority from violence , and stepped out of the domain of royalty into ...
Page xxvi
... seem to each other to be under the influence of some rational principles of action . Hence the lettered slaves who sprang up under the foster- ing patronage of Charles II . , and his most dissolute and despicable court , whose principal ...
... seem to each other to be under the influence of some rational principles of action . Hence the lettered slaves who sprang up under the foster- ing patronage of Charles II . , and his most dissolute and despicable court , whose principal ...
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