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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... termed a paffion ; and we have discovered , that there are many emotions which pafs away without raifing defire of any kind . How is VOL . İ . D the the difficulty to be folved ? There appears to me PART L. 41 Emotions and Paffions .
... termed a paffion ; and we have discovered , that there are many emotions which pafs away without raifing defire of any kind . How is VOL . İ . D the the difficulty to be folved ? There appears to me PART L. 41 Emotions and Paffions .
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... termed an emotion ; but that injury raiseth in the ftranger a ftronger emotion , which being accompanied with defire of revenge , is a paffion : external expreffions of diftrefs produce in the spectator a painful feeling , which being ...
... termed an emotion ; but that injury raiseth in the ftranger a ftronger emotion , which being accompanied with defire of revenge , is a paffion : external expreffions of diftrefs produce in the spectator a painful feeling , which being ...
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... termed its object : a fine woman , for example , raises the paffion of love , which is directed to her as its object : a man , by injuring me , raises my refentment , and becomes thereby the object of my refentment . Thus the cause of a ...
... termed its object : a fine woman , for example , raises the paffion of love , which is directed to her as its object : a man , by injuring me , raises my refentment , and becomes thereby the object of my refentment . Thus the cause of a ...
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... termed instinctive ; and when it is fo moderate as to admit reason , and to prompt actions with a view to an end , it may in that state be termed deliberative . With respect to actions exerted as means to an end , defire to bring about ...
... termed instinctive ; and when it is fo moderate as to admit reason , and to prompt actions with a view to an end , it may in that state be termed deliberative . With respect to actions exerted as means to an end , defire to bring about ...
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... termed diffocial . * When this analysis of human nature is confidered , not one article of which can with truth be controvert- ed , there is reafon to be furprised at the blindness of fome philofophers , who , by dark and confufed no ...
... termed diffocial . * When this analysis of human nature is confidered , not one article of which can with truth be controvert- ed , there is reafon to be furprised at the blindness of fome philofophers , who , by dark and confufed no ...
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