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... Hence a foundation for reasoning upon the tafte of any individual , and for paffing fentence upon it : where it is conformable . to principles , we can pronounce with certainty that it is correct ; otherwife , that it is incorrect , and ...
... Hence a foundation for reasoning upon the tafte of any individual , and for paffing fentence upon it : where it is conformable . to principles , we can pronounce with certainty that it is correct ; otherwife , that it is incorrect , and ...
Page 13
... Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every paffion ; but feldom delicacy of tafle . Upon a man pof- feffed of that bleffing , the moral duties , no less than the fine arts , make a deep impreffion , and ...
... Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every paffion ; but feldom delicacy of tafle . Upon a man pof- feffed of that bleffing , the moral duties , no less than the fine arts , make a deep impreffion , and ...
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... hence it is , that accurate judgment is not friend , ly to declamation or copious eloquence . This rea- foning is confirmed by experience ; for it is a no- ted obfervation , That a great or comprehenfive memory ' is feldom connected ...
... hence it is , that accurate judgment is not friend , ly to declamation or copious eloquence . This rea- foning is confirmed by experience ; for it is a no- ted obfervation , That a great or comprehenfive memory ' is feldom connected ...
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... hence the fingular beauty of fmoke afcending in a calın morning . I am extremely fenfible of the difguft men ge- nerally have to abftract fpeculations ; and I would avoid it altogether , if it could be done in a work that profeffes to ...
... hence the fingular beauty of fmoke afcending in a calın morning . I am extremely fenfible of the difguft men ge- nerally have to abftract fpeculations ; and I would avoid it altogether , if it could be done in a work that profeffes to ...
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... Hence it is required in every fuch work , that , like an organic fyftem , its parts be orderly arranged and mutually connected , bear- ing each of them a relation to the whole , fome more intimate , fome lefs , according to their def ...
... Hence it is required in every fuch work , that , like an organic fyftem , its parts be orderly arranged and mutually connected , bear- ing each of them a relation to the whole , fome more intimate , fome lefs , according to their def ...
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