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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... things are link- ed together , have a great influence in directing the train of thought . Taking a view of external ... thing . If this argument need confirmation , I urge experience : whoever makes a trial will find , that ideas are ...
... things are link- ed together , have a great influence in directing the train of thought . Taking a view of external ... thing . If this argument need confirmation , I urge experience : whoever makes a trial will find , that ideas are ...
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... things together without end . Not a fingle thing appears folitary and altogether devoid of connection ; the only difference is , that fome are inti- mately connected , fome more flightly ; fome near , fome at a distance . Experience ...
... things together without end . Not a fingle thing appears folitary and altogether devoid of connection ; the only difference is , that fome are inti- mately connected , fome more flightly ; fome near , fome at a distance . Experience ...
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... things by diftant and fanciful relations , which furprise because they are un- expected fuch relations , being of the flighteft kind , readily occur tothofe only who make every relation equally welcome . Wit , upon that account , is in ...
... things by diftant and fanciful relations , which furprise because they are un- expected fuch relations , being of the flighteft kind , readily occur tothofe only who make every relation equally welcome . Wit , upon that account , is in ...
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... things of unequal rank , our tendency is , to view the principal fubject before we defcend to its acceffories or ... thing be first furveyed as a whole . It need fcarce be added , that our ideas are governed by the fame principle ; and ...
... things of unequal rank , our tendency is , to view the principal fubject before we defcend to its acceffories or ... thing be first furveyed as a whole . It need fcarce be added , that our ideas are governed by the fame principle ; and ...
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... with the principal fubject . In the following paffage different things are brought together without the flighteft con- nection , Lib.lin , 173 . nection , if it be not what may be called 34 CHAR . 1 . Perceptions and Ideas.
... with the principal fubject . In the following paffage different things are brought together without the flighteft con- nection , Lib.lin , 173 . nection , if it be not what may be called 34 CHAR . 1 . Perceptions and Ideas.
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