The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... whole of what is implied in the term beauty . The eyes of one person may be much inferior in this respect to those of another , though e- qually fit for all the purposes of vision . The like may be said of every other feature ...
... whole of what is implied in the term beauty . The eyes of one person may be much inferior in this respect to those of another , though e- qually fit for all the purposes of vision . The like may be said of every other feature ...
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... whole per- formance . In this respect it resembles grammatical purity , of which I have already treated , but it is not in this respect only that it resembles it . Both are best illustrated by shewing the different ways wherein they may ...
... whole per- formance . In this respect it resembles grammatical purity , of which I have already treated , but it is not in this respect only that it resembles it . Both are best illustrated by shewing the different ways wherein they may ...
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... whole attention is fixed on the object ; we are scarce sensible that there is a medium 66 * Non ut intelligere possit , sed ne omnino possit non intelligere curandum . Inst . Lib . viii . Cap . 2 . Sect . 1 . The obscurity .... Part II ...
... whole attention is fixed on the object ; we are scarce sensible that there is a medium 66 * Non ut intelligere possit , sed ne omnino possit non intelligere curandum . Inst . Lib . viii . Cap . 2 . Sect . 1 . The obscurity .... Part II ...
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... whole , renders the passage under consideration , one of those which may , with equal * The maxim , Natura se potissimum prodit in minimis , is not confined to physiology . Spect . No. 496. T. Sect . I. The obscurity .... Part III ...
... whole , renders the passage under consideration , one of those which may , with equal * The maxim , Natura se potissimum prodit in minimis , is not confined to physiology . Spect . No. 496. T. Sect . I. The obscurity .... Part III ...
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... whole begins , pro- ceeds , and ends together ) this union of a body and " a soul must be magical indeed , as Doctor Cudworth " calls it , so magical , that the hypothesis serves to no purpose in philosophy , whatever it may do in theo ...
... whole begins , pro- ceeds , and ends together ) this union of a body and " a soul must be magical indeed , as Doctor Cudworth " calls it , so magical , that the hypothesis serves to no purpose in philosophy , whatever it may do in theo ...
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