Elements of Criticism: With the Author's Last Corrections and Additions : Vol. I(-II)From the Press of S. Etheridge, for J. White, Thomas & Andrews, W. Spotswood, D. West, W.P. Blake, E. Larkin, & J. West, 1796 - Criticism - 440 pages |
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Page 55
... sense of our present happiness . In the cafe of an acute pain , a peculiar circumstance contributes its part : the brisk circulation of the animal spirits occafioned by acute pain , continues after the pain is gone , and pro- duceth a ...
... sense of our present happiness . In the cafe of an acute pain , a peculiar circumstance contributes its part : the brisk circulation of the animal spirits occafioned by acute pain , continues after the pain is gone , and pro- duceth a ...
Page 75
... senses really exist in the way and manner we perceive , is a branch of in- tuitive knowledge : when I fee a man walking , a tree growing , or cattle grazing , I cannot doubt but that these objects are really what they appear to be : if ...
... senses really exist in the way and manner we perceive , is a branch of in- tuitive knowledge : when I fee a man walking , a tree growing , or cattle grazing , I cannot doubt but that these objects are really what they appear to be : if ...
Page 92
... sense of fmelling is fufficiently acute , to distinguish varieties in fweet - smelling flowers without end . With refpect to . paffions and emotions , their differences as to pleasant and painful have no limits ; though we want ...
... sense of fmelling is fufficiently acute , to distinguish varieties in fweet - smelling flowers without end . With refpect to . paffions and emotions , their differences as to pleasant and painful have no limits ; though we want ...
Page 93
... sense that are felt as at the organ of fenfe , are conceived to be corporeal , or grofs : * the pleasures of the eye and the ear are felt to be internal ; and for that reafon are con- ceived to be more pure and refined . The focial ...
... sense that are felt as at the organ of fenfe , are conceived to be corporeal , or grofs : * the pleasures of the eye and the ear are felt to be internal ; and for that reafon are con- ceived to be more pure and refined . The focial ...
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... sense , and as applicable to the fine arts . Hitherto thefe terms have been taken in their proper fenfe , as applicable to ob- jects of fight only and it was of importance to be- ftow fome pains upon that article ; because , generally ...
... sense , and as applicable to the fine arts . Hitherto thefe terms have been taken in their proper fenfe , as applicable to ob- jects of fight only and it was of importance to be- ftow fome pains upon that article ; because , generally ...
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