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6 For here , ( I observed , ) was a very middle - rate poet , who pleased many readers , and therefore poetry of a middle sort was entitled to some esteem ; nor could I see why poetry should not , like every thing else , have different ...
6 For here , ( I observed , ) was a very middle - rate poet , who pleased many readers , and therefore poetry of a middle sort was entitled to some esteem ; nor could I see why poetry should not , like every thing else , have different ...
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Yes , Sir , but a man is to guard himself against taking a thing in general . ' I said I was certain that a great part of what we are told by the travellers to the South Sea must be conjecture , because they had not enough of the ...
Yes , Sir , but a man is to guard himself against taking a thing in general . ' I said I was certain that a great part of what we are told by the travellers to the South Sea must be conjecture , because they had not enough of the ...
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He thus defined the difference between physical and moral truth ; " Physical truth , is , when you tell a thing as it actually is . Moral truth , is , when you tell a thing sin- cerely and precisely as it appears to you .
He thus defined the difference between physical and moral truth ; " Physical truth , is , when you tell a thing as it actually is . Moral truth , is , when you tell a thing sin- cerely and precisely as it appears to you .
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DEDICATION TO SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS | 1 |
LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON SEPT 18 1709 | 17 |
INDEX 657704 | 657 |
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