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"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Religion of Author:
"Roman Catholic"
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Work title:
"Thoughts on Various Subjects"
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Date: 1737, 1743
"The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by shewing its Faults; as when a Stream discovers the Dirt at the bottom, it convinceth us of the transparency and purity of the Water."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: 1737, 1743
"It is with narrow-soul'd People as with narrow-neck'd Bottles: The less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring it out."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)