A Tale of a Tub: With, The Battle of the Books; And, The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, 1710Scolar Press, 1971 - 344 pages |
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... Account of themselves and their Art , by looking into the Original and Pedigree of the Word . as it is generally understood among us , and very briefly confidering the antient and prefent State thereof . BY · BY the Word , Critick , at ...
... Account of themselves and their Art , by looking into the Original and Pedigree of the Word . as it is generally understood among us , and very briefly confidering the antient and prefent State thereof . BY · BY the Word , Critick , at ...
Page 99
... Account I have been able to collect of the Chief amongst them , without confidering much the Order they came out in ; because , I think , Authors are not well agreed as to that Point . I hope , when this Treatife of mine fhall be ...
... Account I have been able to collect of the Chief amongst them , without confidering much the Order they came out in ; because , I think , Authors are not well agreed as to that Point . I hope , when this Treatife of mine fhall be ...
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... Account we think it highly Reasonable to produce our great Forgetfulness , as an Ar- gument unanswerable for our great Wit . I ought in Method , to have informed the Reader about fifty Pages ago , of a Fancy Lord Peter took , and ...
... Account we think it highly Reasonable to produce our great Forgetfulness , as an Ar- gument unanswerable for our great Wit . I ought in Method , to have informed the Reader about fifty Pages ago , of a Fancy Lord Peter took , and ...
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