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17 Cards in this Set
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Kant
An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment? 1784 |
"Rules and formulas...are the fetters of an everlasting immaturity" (59).
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Kant
An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment? 1784 |
"Enlightenment is mankind's exit from self-incurred immaturity" (58).
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Swift
A Modest Proposal 1729 |
"I rather recommend buying the Children alive, and dressing them hot from the Knife, as we do Roasting Pigs" (7).
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Swift
A Modest Proposal 1729 |
"As things now stand, how they will be able to find Food and Raiment for One hundred thousand useless Mouths and Backs" (10).
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Milton
Paradise Lost Book I 1667, 1674 |
"I may assert Eternal Providence,
And justifie the wayes of God to men" (Lines 25-26). |
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Milton
Paradise Lost Book I 1667, 1674 |
A brief introduction mentions the fall of Adam and Eve caused by the serpent, which was Satan, who led the angels in revolt against God and was cast into hell.
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Milton
Paradise Lost Book IV 1667, 1674 |
"though both
Not equal, as thir sex not equal seem’d" (295-296). |
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Milton
Paradise Lost Book IV 1667, 1674 |
That evening, two scouts sent by Gabriel find Satan whispering in the ear of Eve as she sleeps next to her husband.
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Behn
Love Armed 1677 |
But my poor heart alone is harmed,
Whilst thine the victor is, and free. |
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Milton
Paradise Lost Book IX 1667, 1674 |
The serpent finds Eve alone and approaches her. She is surprised to find the creature can speak, and is soon induced by him to eat the fruit of the forbidden tree. Adam is horrified when he finds what she has done, but at length resignes himself to share her fate rather than be left without her, and eats the fruit also.
& shame at nakedness |
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Addison & Steele
The Spectator 1 1711 |
Introducing Mr. Spectator:
"In short, whenever I see a cluster of people I always mix with them, though I never open my lips but in my own club" (107). |
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Addison & Steele
The Spectator 10 1711 |
Improve the reader:
"These needy persons do not know what to talk of, till about twelve a clock in the morning" (110). |
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Addison & Steele
The Spectator 69 1711 |
The Royal Exchange
"who upon being asked what countryman he was, replied that he was a citizen of the world" (114). |
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Addison & Steele
The Spectator 11 1711 |
Gender relations:
"You men are writers, and can represent us women as unbecoming as you please in your works, while we are unable to return the injury" (117). |
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Defoe
Robinson Crusoe 1719 |
"I slept none that night" (154).
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Defoe
Robinson Crusoe 1719 |
"thus my fear banished all my religious hope" (155).
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Defoe
Robinson Crusoe 1719 |
"I then reflected that God, who...had thought fit to punish and afflict me, so He was able to deliver me" (157).
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