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Page 91
This difference is also more remarkable in daughters than in fons . These are
curious facis ; and to evolve the cause we must examine minutely , that operation
of the mind by which a passion is extended to a related object . In considering
two ...
This difference is also more remarkable in daughters than in fons . These are
curious facis ; and to evolve the cause we must examine minutely , that operation
of the mind by which a passion is extended to a related object . In considering
two ...
Page 348
There is a river in Macedon , there is also moreover a river in Monmouth : it is
callid Wye at Monmouti , but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other
river ; but it is all one , ' tis as like as my fingers to my fingers , and there is
salmons in ...
There is a river in Macedon , there is also moreover a river in Monmouth : it is
callid Wye at Monmouti , but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other
river ; but it is all one , ' tis as like as my fingers to my fingers , and there is
salmons in ...
Page 353
Passions and emotions are also inflamed by comparison . A man of high rank
humbles the bystanders so far as almost to annihilate them in their own opinion .
Cæfar , beholding the statue of Alexander , felt a great depression of spirits ,
when ...
Passions and emotions are also inflamed by comparison . A man of high rank
humbles the bystanders so far as almost to annihilate them in their own opinion .
Cæfar , beholding the statue of Alexander , felt a great depression of spirits ,
when ...
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