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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... punished with fhame and remorfe . * Rude ages exhibit the triumph of authority over reafon : Philofophers anciently were di- vided into fects , being Epicureans , Platonifts , Stoics , Pythagoreans , or Sceptics : the fpecu- lative ...
... punished with fhame and remorfe . * Rude ages exhibit the triumph of authority over reafon : Philofophers anciently were di- vided into fects , being Epicureans , Platonifts , Stoics , Pythagoreans , or Sceptics : the fpecu- lative ...
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... punish the de- linquent . Even things inanimate often raise emotions accompanied with defire : witnefs the goods of fortune , I which are objects of defire almost universally ; and the defire , when immoderate , obtains the name of ...
... punish the de- linquent . Even things inanimate often raise emotions accompanied with defire : witnefs the goods of fortune , I which are objects of defire almost universally ; and the defire , when immoderate , obtains the name of ...
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... punish himself . The gratification here is far from being pleasant . See p . 188. of this volume . But a fingle exception , ins ftead of overturning a general rule , is rather a confirmation of it . tive actions , where we act blindly ...
... punish himself . The gratification here is far from being pleasant . See p . 188. of this volume . But a fingle exception , ins ftead of overturning a general rule , is rather a confirmation of it . tive actions , where we act blindly ...
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... punish himself . The joy of gratification is properly called an emotion ; be- cause it makes us happy in our prefent fituation , and is ultimate in its nature , not having a tendency to any thing beyond . On the other hand , forrow muft ...
... punish himself . The joy of gratification is properly called an emotion ; be- cause it makes us happy in our prefent fituation , and is ultimate in its nature , not having a tendency to any thing beyond . On the other hand , forrow muft ...
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... punishments , from which the guilty never efcape : to perform noble and generous actions , a warm fenfe of their dignity and fuperior excellence is a moft effica- cious incitement . * And to leave virtue in no quarter unfupported , here ...
... punishments , from which the guilty never efcape : to perform noble and generous actions , a warm fenfe of their dignity and fuperior excellence is a moft effica- cious incitement . * And to leave virtue in no quarter unfupported , here ...
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