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... kind of person and writer Clarke was . Like William Law , Samuel Clarke ( 1675-1729 ) was an eighteenth - century divine . The similarity between the two ends there . One man was a mystic ; the other , an extreme ra- tionalist . Law ...
... kind of person and writer Clarke was . Like William Law , Samuel Clarke ( 1675-1729 ) was an eighteenth - century divine . The similarity between the two ends there . One man was a mystic ; the other , an extreme ra- tionalist . Law ...
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... kind of humor that Boswell frequently failed to detect . That Johnson was acutely conscious of his rudeness is borne out by Boswell's own observations elsewhere that , after offending someone by his harshness , he " was not only prompt ...
... kind of humor that Boswell frequently failed to detect . That Johnson was acutely conscious of his rudeness is borne out by Boswell's own observations elsewhere that , after offending someone by his harshness , he " was not only prompt ...
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... kind of mys- tical experience.31 In his Life of Herman Boerhaave , which he wrote when he was only thirty , Johnson deals with a spiritual condition of this kind . Boerhaave , as Johnson describes him , was a man of genius ...
... kind of mys- tical experience.31 In his Life of Herman Boerhaave , which he wrote when he was only thirty , Johnson deals with a spiritual condition of this kind . Boerhaave , as Johnson describes him , was a man of genius ...
Contents
Johnson and William Law | 3 |
Johnson and Samuel Clarke | 27 |
The Atonement | 46 |
Copyright | |
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