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"English"
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Religion of Author:
"Roman Catholic"
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Work title:
"Thoughts on Various Subjects"
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Literary Period:
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Geography"
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Date: 1737, 1743
"It is not so much the being exempt from Faults, as the having overcome them, that is an Advantage to us; it being with the Follies of the Mind as with the Weeds of a Field, which, if destroyed and consumed upon the place of their Birth, enrich and improve it more than if none had ever sprung the...
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)