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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... hand by a stone , upon the palate the palate by an apricot , and upon the noftrils by a rofe : it is otherwife in fecing and hearing ; for I am not fenfible of the impref- fion made upon my eye , when I behold a tree ; nor of the ...
... hand by a stone , upon the palate the palate by an apricot , and upon the noftrils by a rofe : it is otherwife in fecing and hearing ; for I am not fenfible of the impref- fion made upon my eye , when I behold a tree ; nor of the ...
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... hand , any intenfe exercife of intellectual powers , becomes painful by overftraining the mind ceffation from fuch exercife gives not inftant relief ; it is neceffary that the void be filled with fome amufement , gently relaxing the ...
... hand , any intenfe exercife of intellectual powers , becomes painful by overftraining the mind ceffation from fuch exercife gives not inftant relief ; it is neceffary that the void be filled with fome amufement , gently relaxing the ...
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... hand in hand with the moral fenfe , to which indeed it is nearly al- lied : both of them difcover what is right , and what is wrong : fafhion , temper , and education , have an influence to vitiate both , or to preferve them pure and ...
... hand in hand with the moral fenfe , to which indeed it is nearly al- lied : both of them difcover what is right , and what is wrong : fafhion , temper , and education , have an influence to vitiate both , or to preferve them pure and ...
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... hand ; and he was far ad- vanced before the thought ftruck him , that his private meditations might be publicly useful . In public , however , he would not appear in a flov- enly drefs ; and therefore he pretends not other- wife to ...
... hand ; and he was far ad- vanced before the thought ftruck him , that his private meditations might be publicly useful . In public , however , he would not appear in a flov- enly drefs ; and therefore he pretends not other- wife to ...
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... hand , a man of accurate judgment can- not have a great flow of ideas ; because the flighter re- lations , making no figure in his mind , have no power to introduce ideas . And hence it is , that accurate judg- ment is not friendly to ...
... hand , a man of accurate judgment can- not have a great flow of ideas ; because the flighter re- lations , making no figure in his mind , have no power to introduce ideas . And hence it is , that accurate judg- ment is not friendly to ...
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