Elements of Criticism, Volume 1Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1967 - Criticism |
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Page 48
... reflection ; fuch as graceful motion and genteel behaviour . But as the intention of the agent is a capital circumftance in the bulk of human actions , it requires reflection to difcover their true character . If I fee one delivering a ...
... reflection ; fuch as graceful motion and genteel behaviour . But as the intention of the agent is a capital circumftance in the bulk of human actions , it requires reflection to difcover their true character . If I fee one delivering a ...
Page 57
... reflection bear no part . The action is formed blindly by the impulfe of paffion , without any view . Thus one in extreme hunger fnatches at food , without the slightest reflection whether it be falutary or not : Avarice prompts to ...
... reflection bear no part . The action is formed blindly by the impulfe of paffion , without any view . Thus one in extreme hunger fnatches at food , without the slightest reflection whether it be falutary or not : Avarice prompts to ...
Page 114
... reflection of any fort . This reasoning , if any one hefitate , is confirmed by conftant and univerfal experience . Let us take under confideration the meeting of Hector and Andromache in the fixth book of the Iliad , or fome of the ...
... reflection of any fort . This reasoning , if any one hefitate , is confirmed by conftant and univerfal experience . Let us take under confideration the meeting of Hector and Andromache in the fixth book of the Iliad , or fome of the ...
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