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Page 336
... surprise is still more e- vident than of novelty . Self - love makes us vigilantly attentive to self - preservation . But felf - love , which operates by means of rea- fon and reflection , and impells not the mind to any particular ...
... surprise is still more e- vident than of novelty . Self - love makes us vigilantly attentive to self - preservation . But felf - love , which operates by means of rea- fon and reflection , and impells not the mind to any particular ...
Page 361
... surprise , occafion- ed by the uncommon difference of two creatures of the fame fpecies . We are next fenfible , that the one appears lefs , the other larger , than they did formerly . This new circumstance is a fecond cause of surprise ...
... surprise , occafion- ed by the uncommon difference of two creatures of the fame fpecies . We are next fenfible , that the one appears lefs , the other larger , than they did formerly . This new circumstance is a fecond cause of surprise ...
Page 362
... surprise will be gratified , by conceiving it to be of the most diminutive fize poffible . The mastiff in the mean time is quite neglected . I am able to illuftrate this effect by a very familiar exam- ple . Take a piece of paper or ...
... surprise will be gratified , by conceiving it to be of the most diminutive fize poffible . The mastiff in the mean time is quite neglected . I am able to illuftrate this effect by a very familiar exam- ple . Take a piece of paper or ...
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