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1 I meaning ) men , who may be led to think . that truth , judgment , and impartiality are fmall matters , when contrafted with what Dr. Johnson's admirers have thought fit to call , an inimitable elegance of stile and compofition .
1 I meaning ) men , who may be led to think . that truth , judgment , and impartiality are fmall matters , when contrafted with what Dr. Johnson's admirers have thought fit to call , an inimitable elegance of stile and compofition .
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... at the end of the Essay , that " Lauder's mo“ tives were , a ftrict regard to truth " alone , & c . and none of them taken from any difference of country , or of fentiments in political or religious " matters t .
... at the end of the Essay , that " Lauder's mo“ tives were , a ftrict regard to truth " alone , & c . and none of them taken from any difference of country , or of fentiments in political or religious " matters t .
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... to the spectators , who were perfons exactly anfwering the defcription here given of them ; and if the characters were perfonated by clergymen , or candidates for orders , there is propriety as well as truth in Milton's reflection .
... to the spectators , who were perfons exactly anfwering the defcription here given of them ; and if the characters were perfonated by clergymen , or candidates for orders , there is propriety as well as truth in Milton's reflection .
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If nothing may be published but " what civil authority have previously approved , power must always be the " ftandard of truth . " 63 Would not one think that problem was thus folved at once ? Is not this an alternative which even Dr.
If nothing may be published but " what civil authority have previously approved , power must always be the " ftandard of truth . " 63 Would not one think that problem was thus folved at once ? Is not this an alternative which even Dr.
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Is it not better that power fhould be ' the standard of truth , than that we should ' have no fettlement , no peace , no religion ? But , fays another writer , as honest a man , and at least as fair a reafoner , as Dr. Johnson ...
Is it not better that power fhould be ' the standard of truth , than that we should ' have no fettlement , no peace , no religion ? But , fays another writer , as honest a man , and at least as fair a reafoner , as Dr. Johnson ...
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| Title | Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate of Education and Areopagitica Issue 56 of British culture series, Group IV Eighteenth century collections online |
| Author | Francis Blackburne |
| Publisher | Verlag nicht ermittelbar, 1780 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 19 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 381 pages |
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