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Page 82
... Examples are without number : the fole difficulty is a proper choice . I begin with felf - love , and the power it hath to generate other paffions . The love which parents bear their children , is an illuftrious example of the foregoing ...
... Examples are without number : the fole difficulty is a proper choice . I begin with felf - love , and the power it hath to generate other paffions . The love which parents bear their children , is an illuftrious example of the foregoing ...
Page 129
... examples . Viewing a fine garden , I perceive it to be beautiful or agreeable ; and I confider the beauty or a ... example . A rot- ten carcass is loathfome and difagreeable , and raises in the fpectator a painful emotion . The ...
... examples . Viewing a fine garden , I perceive it to be beautiful or agreeable ; and I confider the beauty or a ... example . A rot- ten carcass is loathfome and difagreeable , and raises in the fpectator a painful emotion . The ...
Page 257
... example , must in respect of its re- gularity be beautiful . But I have not said , that regularity , order , and ... examples . Imagine a small body , let it be a globe , in a conti- nual flux of figure , from the most perfect regularity ...
... example , must in respect of its re- gularity be beautiful . But I have not said , that regularity , order , and ... examples . Imagine a small body , let it be a globe , in a conti- nual flux of figure , from the most perfect regularity ...
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