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Page 74
And to leave virtue in no quarter unsupported , here is unfolded an admirable
contrivance , by which good example commands the heart and adds to virtue the
force of habit . Did our moral feelings extend no farther than to approve the action
...
And to leave virtue in no quarter unsupported , here is unfolded an admirable
contrivance , by which good example commands the heart and adds to virtue the
force of habit . Did our moral feelings extend no farther than to approve the action
...
Page 82
Examples are without number : the sole difficulty is a proper choice . I begin with
self - love , and the power it hath to generate other passions . The love which
parents bear their children , is an illustrious example of the foregoing doctrine .
Examples are without number : the sole difficulty is a proper choice . I begin with
self - love , and the power it hath to generate other passions . The love which
parents bear their children , is an illustrious example of the foregoing doctrine .
Page 362
I shall confine myself to one other suppofition , That the spectator was acquainted
beforehand with one of the animals only , the lapdog for example . This new
circumstance will vary the effect . Instead of widening the natural difference by ...
I shall confine myself to one other suppofition , That the spectator was acquainted
beforehand with one of the animals only , the lapdog for example . This new
circumstance will vary the effect . Instead of widening the natural difference by ...
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| Title | Elements of Criticism, Volume 1 Classics in art and literary criticism Elements of Criticism, Lord Henry Home Kames |
| Author | Lord Henry Home Kames |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1967 |
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