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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Page 46
... Subject ; because We are extreme un- willing to inflame a Controversy , whose Continuance may be fo fatal to the Inte refts of Us All , defiring much rather that Things be amicably compofed ; and We fhall fo far advance on our Side , as ...
... Subject ; because We are extreme un- willing to inflame a Controversy , whose Continuance may be fo fatal to the Inte refts of Us All , defiring much rather that Things be amicably compofed ; and We fhall fo far advance on our Side , as ...
Page 128
... Subject of Flies and Spittle , or the laborious Eloquence of his Stile . And I cannot forbear doing that Author the Justice of my publick Acknowledg- ments , for the great Helps and Liftings Į had out of his incomparable Piece , while I ...
... Subject of Flies and Spittle , or the laborious Eloquence of his Stile . And I cannot forbear doing that Author the Justice of my publick Acknowledg- ments , for the great Helps and Liftings Į had out of his incomparable Piece , while I ...
Page 137
... subject ; Because , Memory being an Employment of the Mind upon things paft , is a Faculty , for which the Learned , in our Illustrious Age , have no manner of Occasion , who deal entirely with Invention , and strike all Things out of ...
... subject ; Because , Memory being an Employment of the Mind upon things paft , is a Faculty , for which the Learned , in our Illustrious Age , have no manner of Occasion , who deal entirely with Invention , and strike all Things out of ...
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