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Page 11
... fight , because they give him pain . On the other hand , a man võid of taste , upon whom even ftriking beauties make but a faint impreffion , indulges pride or envy without con- trol , and loves to brood over errors and ble- mishes . In ...
... fight , because they give him pain . On the other hand , a man võid of taste , upon whom even ftriking beauties make but a faint impreffion , indulges pride or envy without con- trol , and loves to brood over errors and ble- mishes . In ...
Page 30
... fight make an impreffion fo lively , as that a rela- tion even of the flightest kind is relished . This however ought not to be imitated in defcription : words are fo far fhort of the eye in liveliness of impreffion , that in a ...
... fight make an impreffion fo lively , as that a rela- tion even of the flightest kind is relished . This however ought not to be imitated in defcription : words are fo far fhort of the eye in liveliness of impreffion , that in a ...
Page 36
... fight that raife plea- fant emotions : a barren heath , a dirty marsh , a rotten carcafs , raife painful emotions . Of the emotions thus produced , we inquire for no other caufe but merely the prefence of the object . The things now ...
... fight that raife plea- fant emotions : a barren heath , a dirty marsh , a rotten carcafs , raife painful emotions . Of the emotions thus produced , we inquire for no other caufe but merely the prefence of the object . The things now ...
Page 41
... fight or idea of the beloved fe male , joined with defire of enjoyment ? in what elfe confifts the paffion of refentment , but in a pain- ful emotion occafioned by the injury , accompanied with defire to chaftife the guilty perfon ? In ...
... fight or idea of the beloved fe male , joined with defire of enjoyment ? in what elfe confifts the paffion of refentment , but in a pain- ful emotion occafioned by the injury , accompanied with defire to chaftife the guilty perfon ? In ...
Page 45
... fight for my coun- try in order to repel its enemies . At the fame . time , there are human actions that are not go- verned by reason , nor are done with any view to confequences . Infants , like brutes , are mostly governed by inftinct ...
... fight for my coun- try in order to repel its enemies . At the fame . time , there are human actions that are not go- verned by reason , nor are done with any view to confequences . Infants , like brutes , are mostly governed by inftinct ...
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