Addison writes with the ease of a gentleman. His readers fancy that a wise and accomplished companion is talking to them; so that
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There is, indeed a more mitigated scepticism or academical philosophy, which may be both durable and useful, and which may, in par
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If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reaso
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The imagination of man is naturally sublime, delighted with whatever is remote and extraordinary, and running, without control, in
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That all [Berkeley's] arguments, though otherwise intended, are, in reality, merely sceptical, appears from this, that they admit
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Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
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