An edition of Essays
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Essays
or Discourses
by Benito Jerónimo Feijoo
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v. 1. The voice of the people. Virtue and vice. Exalted and humble fortune. The most refined policy. The Machiavelianism of the ancients. Ambition in sovereigns. The value or superior excellence of nobility. The semblance of virtue.
v. 2. The balance of Astrea. On the impunity of lying. On the love of our country, and national prejudice or prepossession. On true and false urbanity. A defence or vindication of the women. On church music. The wonderful effects of music, and a comparison of the antient with the modern.
v. 3. Reflexions upon history. Additions to the foregoing discourse. The divorce of history from fable. The origin of fable in history. On books of instruction, wih respect to politics. An apology for, or vindication of, the characters of some persons who have been famous in history. Answer to an objection concerning Lord Bacon. A letter on the subject of the Wandering Jew.
v. 4. Physical paradoxes. Sceptical philosophy. The shew or affectation of learning. Moral and political paradoxes. The great and masterly authority of experience. A display of the intellectual faculties of the various people.
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