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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... Learning might furnish Matter for a Satyr , that would be useful and diverting He refolved to proceed in a manner , that should be altogether new , the World having been already too long naufeated with endless Repetitions upon every ...
... Learning might furnish Matter for a Satyr , that would be useful and diverting He refolved to proceed in a manner , that should be altogether new , the World having been already too long naufeated with endless Repetitions upon every ...
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... Learning : For all Human Actions feem to be divi- ded like Themistocles and his Company ; One Man can Fiddle , and another can make a fmall Town a great City , and he that cannot do either one or the other , deserves to be kick'd out of ...
... Learning : For all Human Actions feem to be divi- ded like Themistocles and his Company ; One Man can Fiddle , and another can make a fmall Town a great City , and he that cannot do either one or the other , deserves to be kick'd out of ...
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... Learning puffeth Men up : And Secondly , they pro- ved it by the following Syllogifm ; Words are but Wind ; and Learning is nothing but Words ; Ergo , Learning is nothing but Wind . For this Reason , the Philofophers among them , did in ...
... Learning puffeth Men up : And Secondly , they pro- ved it by the following Syllogifm ; Words are but Wind ; and Learning is nothing but Words ; Ergo , Learning is nothing but Wind . For this Reason , the Philofophers among them , did in ...
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