Elements of CriticismA. S. Barnes & Company, 1866 - 486 pages |
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... produce a sight of the object . One thing only is clear , that as we have no knowledge of that picture , it is as natural to conceive that it should be made the instrument of discovering the external object , and not itself , as of ...
... produce a sight of the object . One thing only is clear , that as we have no knowledge of that picture , it is as natural to conceive that it should be made the instrument of discovering the external object , and not itself , as of ...
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... produce organic impressions , from those which affect us from a distance . When we touch a soft and smooth body , we have a pleasant feeling as at the place of contact ; which feeling we distinguish not , at least not accurately , from ...
... produce organic impressions , from those which affect us from a distance . When we touch a soft and smooth body , we have a pleasant feeling as at the place of contact ; which feeling we distinguish not , at least not accurately , from ...
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... produce in the morning of life . In the next place ( 2 ) , a philosophic inquiry into the principles of the fine arts inures the reflecting mind to the most enticing sort of logic the practice of reasoning upon subjects so agreeable ...
... produce in the morning of life . In the next place ( 2 ) , a philosophic inquiry into the principles of the fine arts inures the reflecting mind to the most enticing sort of logic the practice of reasoning upon subjects so agreeable ...
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... produce connection of action , because perception and action have an intimate correspondence . But it is not sufficient for the conduct of life , that our actions be linked together , however intimately : it is besides necessary that ...
... produce connection of action , because perception and action have an intimate correspondence . But it is not sufficient for the conduct of life , that our actions be linked together , however intimately : it is besides necessary that ...
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... produced when the object was present : the only difference is , that an idea being fainter than an original percep- tion , the pleasure or pain produced by the former ... produce in the spectator a painful feeling 40 EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS .
... produced when the object was present : the only difference is , that an idea being fainter than an original percep- tion , the pleasure or pain produced by the former ... produce in the spectator a painful feeling 40 EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS .
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