By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's pre-existence.


Essays upon several moral subjects (ed. 1732)


By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's...

By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's...

By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's...

By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's...