The Works of the English Poets: BlackmoreH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... Epicurus . And though this perfon was perhaps of as dull an understanding , of as unrefined thought , and as little fagacity and penetration , as any man who was ever complimented with the name of a philosopher ; yet feve- ral great ...
... Epicurus . And though this perfon was perhaps of as dull an understanding , of as unrefined thought , and as little fagacity and penetration , as any man who was ever complimented with the name of a philosopher ; yet feve- ral great ...
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... Epicurus . Many of thefe noble leaders , who had declared against the Peripatetic ufurpation , and afferted the Tights and liberties of human understanding , called in this philofopher , for want of a better , to depofe Aris- totle ...
... Epicurus . Many of thefe noble leaders , who had declared against the Peripatetic ufurpation , and afferted the Tights and liberties of human understanding , called in this philofopher , for want of a better , to depofe Aris- totle ...
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... Epicurus , and clear his character from the imputation of irreligion . : After the unhappy fate of Anaxagoras and the great Socrates , it is no wonder that the philofophers , who fucceeded , fhould grow more cautious in propa- gating ...
... Epicurus , and clear his character from the imputation of irreligion . : After the unhappy fate of Anaxagoras and the great Socrates , it is no wonder that the philofophers , who fucceeded , fhould grow more cautious in propa- gating ...
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... a new fyllem of philosophy , but only recited in poeti- cal numbers the ancient doctrines of Democritus and Epicurus . Nor can it with reafon be fuppofed , that the arguments by which he fupports their opinions were not 5 the 24 ΤΟ PREFACE.
... a new fyllem of philosophy , but only recited in poeti- cal numbers the ancient doctrines of Democritus and Epicurus . Nor can it with reafon be fuppofed , that the arguments by which he fupports their opinions were not 5 the 24 ΤΟ PREFACE.
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... Epicurus and Lucretius did ; or infult their adverfaries with greater contempt than thofe have done yet these men themselves , at least many of them , allow thofe philofophers were grofsly mistaken , and will by no means truft to the ...
... Epicurus and Lucretius did ; or infult their adverfaries with greater contempt than thofe have done yet these men themselves , at least many of them , allow thofe philofophers were grofsly mistaken , and will by no means truft to the ...
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Страница 24 - I persuade myself the Epicurean philosophy had not lived so long, nor been so much esteemed, had it not been kept alive and propagated by the famous poem...