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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... kind , has , in the prefent edition , renewed his efforts to correct eve- ry defect ; and he would gladly hope that he has not been altogether unfuccefs ful . The truth is , that a writer , who must be poffeffed of the thought before he ...
... kind , has , in the prefent edition , renewed his efforts to correct eve- ry defect ; and he would gladly hope that he has not been altogether unfuccefs ful . The truth is , that a writer , who must be poffeffed of the thought before he ...
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... kind with thofe which regulate our con- duct . Mathematical and metaphyfical reafon- . ings have no tendency to improve our knowl- edge of man ; nor are they applicable to the common affairs of life but a just tafte of the fine arts ...
... kind with thofe which regulate our con- duct . Mathematical and metaphyfical reafon- . ings have no tendency to improve our knowl- edge of man ; nor are they applicable to the common affairs of life but a just tafte of the fine arts ...
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... kind , readily occur tothofe only who make every relation equally welcome . Wit , upon that account , is in a good meas ure incompatible with folid judgment ; which , negle & t- ing trivial relations , adheres to what are fubftantial ...
... kind , readily occur tothofe only who make every relation equally welcome . Wit , upon that account , is in a good meas ure incompatible with folid judgment ; which , negle & t- ing trivial relations , adheres to what are fubftantial ...
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... kind is relished . This however ought not to be imitat- ed in defcription : words are fo far fhort of the eye in liveliness of impreffion , that in a defcription , connec- tion ought to be carefully ftudied ; for new objects in ...
... kind is relished . This however ought not to be imitat- ed in defcription : words are fo far fhort of the eye in liveliness of impreffion , that in a defcription , connec- tion ought to be carefully ftudied ; for new objects in ...
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... kind with what we felt when eye - witneffes . In a word , an agreea- ble or difagreeable object recalled to the mind in idea , is the occafion of a pleasant or painful emotion , of the fame kind with that produced when the object was ...
... kind with what we felt when eye - witneffes . In a word , an agreea- ble or difagreeable object recalled to the mind in idea , is the occafion of a pleasant or painful emotion , of the fame kind with that produced when the object was ...
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