The Rhetorical World of Augustan Humanism: Ethics and Imagery from Swift to BurkeClarendon Press, 1965 - 314 pages |
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Page 168
... thought to the fortress of orthodoxy , whether religious , ethical , or political . In A Vindication of Natural Society he suggests that the Moderns sometimes go to work underground : readers who ex- pected great things from the ...
... thought to the fortress of orthodoxy , whether religious , ethical , or political . In A Vindication of Natural Society he suggests that the Moderns sometimes go to work underground : readers who ex- pected great things from the ...
Page 219
... thoughts . Because they always issue from a depraved source , ideas them- selves are naked , raw , crude : they must be ... Thought , and still Appears more decent as more suitable ; We should probably resist the temptation to find a pun ...
... thoughts . Because they always issue from a depraved source , ideas them- selves are naked , raw , crude : they must be ... Thought , and still Appears more decent as more suitable ; We should probably resist the temptation to find a pun ...
Page 232
... thought . The dress may vary from Poor Tom's rags to Johnson's ' laced or embroidered waistcoat ' , but in expression as well as in action external conventions are indispensable : the ' dresses ' which clothe thought come from the same ...
... thought . The dress may vary from Poor Tom's rags to Johnson's ' laced or embroidered waistcoat ' , but in expression as well as in action external conventions are indispensable : the ' dresses ' which clothe thought come from the same ...
Contents
The Human Attributes | 28 |
The Uniformity of Human Nature | 54 |
The Depravity of Man | 70 |
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