Representative Selections: With Introduction, Bibliography, and NotesAmerican Book Company, 1936 - 544 pages |
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Page 126
... Thing , we can think no more , or cease to think , on that Thing ; and as we can lose the Idea of one Thing , so we may of ten , twenty , a hundred , & c . and even of all Things , because they are not in their Nature permanent ; and ...
... Thing , we can think no more , or cease to think , on that Thing ; and as we can lose the Idea of one Thing , so we may of ten , twenty , a hundred , & c . and even of all Things , because they are not in their Nature permanent ; and ...
Page 157
... Thing with you : When you counted nothing Good but what pleas'd , nor any thing Reasonable but what you got by ; When you made a Jest of a Mind , and the Pleasures of Reflection , and elegantly plac'd your sole Happiness , like the rest ...
... Thing with you : When you counted nothing Good but what pleas'd , nor any thing Reasonable but what you got by ; When you made a Jest of a Mind , and the Pleasures of Reflection , and elegantly plac'd your sole Happiness , like the rest ...
Page 165
... thing they print , and to censure them on any particular thing accordingly ; since in the way of their Business they print such great variety of things opposite and contradictory . It is likewise as unreasonable what some assert ...
... thing they print , and to censure them on any particular thing accordingly ; since in the way of their Business they print such great variety of things opposite and contradictory . It is likewise as unreasonable what some assert ...
Contents
The Age of Enlightenment | xiii |
Franklins Theories of Education | xxxii |
Franklins Literary Theory and Practice | xlvi |
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