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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... Influence of Paffion with re- fpect to our Perceptions , Opin- ions , and Belief , Appendix . Methods that Nature bath afforded for computing Time and Space , 95- 102 124 134 6. Refemblance of Emotions to their Caufes , 144 fre 147 157 ...
... Influence of Paffion with re- fpect to our Perceptions , Opin- ions , and Belief , Appendix . Methods that Nature bath afforded for computing Time and Space , 95- 102 124 134 6. Refemblance of Emotions to their Caufes , 144 fre 147 157 ...
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... influence to vitiate both , or to preferve them pure and untainted neither of them are arbitrary nor local ; being rooted . in human nature , and governed by principles common to all men . The defign of the pref- ent undertaking , which ...
... influence to vitiate both , or to preferve them pure and untainted neither of them are arbitrary nor local ; being rooted . in human nature , and governed by principles common to all men . The defign of the pref- ent undertaking , which ...
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... influence in directing the train of thought . Taking a view of external objects , their in- herent * For how fhould this be done ? what idea is it that we are to add ? If we can fpecify the idea , that idea is already in the mind , and ...
... influence in directing the train of thought . Taking a view of external objects , their in- herent * For how fhould this be done ? what idea is it that we are to add ? If we can fpecify the idea , that idea is already in the mind , and ...
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... influence to vary the natural train of ideas ; which is , that , in the minds of fome perfons , thoughts and circumftances crowd upon each other by the flightest connections . I afcribe this to a bluntnefs in the difcerning faculty ...
... influence to vary the natural train of ideas ; which is , that , in the minds of fome perfons , thoughts and circumftances crowd upon each other by the flightest connections . I afcribe this to a bluntnefs in the difcerning faculty ...
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... influence of order upon the mind of man : grandeur , which makes a deep impreffion , inclines us , in running over any feries , to proceed from fmall to great , rather than from great to small ; but or- der prevails over that tendency ...
... influence of order upon the mind of man : grandeur , which makes a deep impreffion , inclines us , in running over any feries , to proceed from fmall to great , rather than from great to small ; but or- der prevails over that tendency ...
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