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 44
... reason , nor are done with any view to confequences . Infants , like brutes , are mostly governed by inftinct , without the leaft view to any end , good or ill . And even adult per- fons act fometimes inftinctively thus one in extreme ...
... reason , nor are done with any view to confequences . Infants , like brutes , are mostly governed by inftinct , without the leaft view to any end , good or ill . And even adult per- fons act fometimes inftinctively thus one in extreme ...
Page 45
... reason , and to prompt actions with a view to an end , it may in that state be termed deliberative . With respect to actions exerted as means to an end , defire to bring about the end is what determines one to exert the action ; and ...
... reason , and to prompt actions with a view to an end , it may in that state be termed deliberative . With respect to actions exerted as means to an end , defire to bring about the end is what determines one to exert the action ; and ...
Page 49
... reason why defire , of which a rational being is the object , fhould be the strongest our defires fwell by partial gratification ; and the means we have of gratifying defire , by benefit- ing or harming a rational being , are without ...
... reason why defire , of which a rational being is the object , fhould be the strongest our defires fwell by partial gratification ; and the means we have of gratifying defire , by benefit- ing or harming a rational being , are without ...
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... reason is , that pity interests us in its object , and recoin- mends all its virtuous qualities : female beauty accord- ingly fhows beft in distress ; being more apt to in- fpire love , than upon an ordinary occafion . But the chief ...
... reason is , that pity interests us in its object , and recoin- mends all its virtuous qualities : female beauty accord- ingly fhows beft in distress ; being more apt to in- fpire love , than upon an ordinary occafion . But the chief ...
Page 70
... reason would be too late we take nourishment commonly , not by the direction of reafon , but by the impulfe of hunger and thirft ; and in the fame manner , we avoid danger by the impulfe of fear , which often , before there is time for ...
... reason would be too late we take nourishment commonly , not by the direction of reafon , but by the impulfe of hunger and thirft ; and in the fame manner , we avoid danger by the impulfe of fear , which often , before there is time for ...
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