Elements of CriticismA. S. Barnes & Company, 1866 - 486 pages |
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... equally rare to find one so low in feeling , as not to be capable of instruction . And yet , to refine our taste with respect to beauties of art or of nature , is scarce endeavored in any seminary of learning ; a lamentable defect ...
... equally rare to find one so low in feeling , as not to be capable of instruction . And yet , to refine our taste with respect to beauties of art or of nature , is scarce endeavored in any seminary of learning ; a lamentable defect ...
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... equally evident , That there can be no such thing as a general idea : all our original percep- tions are of particular objects , and our secondary perceptions or ideas must be equally so . Dr. 15. External objects are distinguishable ...
... equally evident , That there can be no such thing as a general idea : all our original percep- tions are of particular objects , and our secondary perceptions or ideas must be equally so . Dr. 15. External objects are distinguishable ...
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... equally to withhold our attention from matters of importance , we might be proof against any deep impression . But our power fails us here : an interesting object seizes and fixes the attention beyond the possibility of control ; and ...
... equally to withhold our attention from matters of importance , we might be proof against any deep impression . But our power fails us here : an interesting object seizes and fixes the attention beyond the possibility of control ; and ...
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... equally so . Precisely , for the same reason , there can be no such thing as an abstract idea . We cannot form an idea of a part without tak- ing in the whole ; or of motion , color , figure , independent of a body . No man will say ...
... equally so . Precisely , for the same reason , there can be no such thing as an abstract idea . We cannot form an idea of a part without tak- ing in the whole ; or of motion , color , figure , independent of a body . No man will say ...
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... equally in every one of the external senses . But there is a differ- ence as to our knowledge of that impression : in touching , tasting , and smelling , we are sensible of the impression ; that , for example , which is made upon the ...
... equally in every one of the external senses . But there is a differ- ence as to our knowledge of that impression : in touching , tasting , and smelling , we are sensible of the impression ; that , for example , which is made upon the ...
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