Elements of Criticism: In Three Volumes. ...A. Millar, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1762 - Criticism |
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... thought ftruck him , that his private meditations might be publicly useful . In public , however , he would not appear in a flovenly drefs ; and therefore he pretends not other- wife to apologise for his errors , than by obferving ...
... thought ftruck him , that his private meditations might be publicly useful . In public , however , he would not appear in a flovenly drefs ; and therefore he pretends not other- wife to apologise for his errors , than by obferving ...
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... thought is not merely cafual . And if it depend not upon will , nor upon chance , we must try to evolve by what law it is governed . The fubject is of importance in the science of human na- ture ; and I promife beforehand , that it will ...
... thought is not merely cafual . And if it depend not upon will , nor upon chance , we must try to evolve by what law it is governed . The fubject is of importance in the science of human na- ture ; and I promife beforehand , that it will ...
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... thought ; and we find by experience , that objects are connected in the mind precifely as they are externally ... thoughts compofed . Such is the law of fucceffion ; whether an original law , or whether directed by fome latent principle ...
... thought ; and we find by experience , that objects are connected in the mind precifely as they are externally ... thoughts compofed . Such is the law of fucceffion ; whether an original law , or whether directed by fome latent principle ...
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... thought from being continued through the ftrongest connections . Much depends on the pre- fent tone of mind ; for a fubject that accords with this tone is always welcome . Thus , in good fpi- rits , a chearful fubject will be introduced ...
... thought from being continued through the ftrongest connections . Much depends on the pre- fent tone of mind ; for a fubject that accords with this tone is always welcome . Thus , in good fpi- rits , a chearful fubject will be introduced ...
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... thoughts and circumftances crowd upon each other by the flightest connection . I afcribe this to a defect in the faculty of difcernment . A person who cannot accurately diftinguish betwixt a flight connection and one that is more folid ...
... thoughts and circumftances crowd upon each other by the flightest connection . I afcribe this to a defect in the faculty of difcernment . A person who cannot accurately diftinguish betwixt a flight connection and one that is more folid ...
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