Enlightened England: An Anthology of Eighteenth Century LiteratureW.W. Norton, 1947 - 1248 pages |
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Page 292
... present life is a probation , a state of trial and of discipline , for that future one ; notwithstanding the objections , which men may fancy they have , from notions of Necessity , against there being any such moral plan as this at all ...
... present life is a probation , a state of trial and of discipline , for that future one ; notwithstanding the objections , which men may fancy they have , from notions of Necessity , against there being any such moral plan as this at all ...
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... present to ages past . Another and a higher order of beings is supposed ; and to those beings everything which is introduced into the work must corre- spond . Of this conduct , under these circumstances , the Roman and Florentine ...
... present to ages past . Another and a higher order of beings is supposed ; and to those beings everything which is introduced into the work must corre- spond . Of this conduct , under these circumstances , the Roman and Florentine ...
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... present state . These two laws ever since we have had any knowledge of man- kind appear to have been fixed laws of our nature ; and as we have not hitherto seen any alteration in them , we have no right to con- clude that they will ever ...
... present state . These two laws ever since we have had any knowledge of man- kind appear to have been fixed laws of our nature ; and as we have not hitherto seen any alteration in them , we have no right to con- clude that they will ever ...
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Daniel Defoe | 11 |
Isaac Watts | 15 |
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