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... first perceptions are of external objects , and our firft attachments are to them . Organic pleasures take the lead : but the mind , gradually ripening , relisheth more and more the pleasures of the eye and ear ; which approach the ...
... first perceptions are of external objects , and our firft attachments are to them . Organic pleasures take the lead : but the mind , gradually ripening , relisheth more and more the pleasures of the eye and ear ; which approach the ...
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... first place , a thorough acquaintance with the principles of the fine arts , redoubles the pleafure we derive from them . To the man who refigns him felf to feeling without interpofing any judgment , poetry , mufic , painting , are mere ...
... first place , a thorough acquaintance with the principles of the fine arts , redoubles the pleafure we derive from them . To the man who refigns him felf to feeling without interpofing any judgment , poetry , mufic , painting , are mere ...
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... first place , to moderate the felfifh affections : by fweetening and harmonizing the temper , it is a ftrong antidote to the turbulence of paffion and violence of purfuit : it procures to a man fo much mental enjoyment , that in order ...
... first place , to moderate the felfifh affections : by fweetening and harmonizing the temper , it is a ftrong antidote to the turbulence of paffion and violence of purfuit : it procures to a man fo much mental enjoyment , that in order ...
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... first the fole aim of his inquiries : proceeding from one particular to another , the fubject grew under his hand ; and he was far advanced before the thought ftruck him , that his private meditations might be publicly ufeful . In ...
... first the fole aim of his inquiries : proceeding from one particular to another , the fubject grew under his hand ; and he was far advanced before the thought ftruck him , that his private meditations might be publicly ufeful . In ...
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... first fourteen lines of ode 7. lib . 1. he mentions feveral towns and diftricts more to the taste of fome than of others in the remainder of the ode , Plancus is exhorted to drown his cares in wine . Having narrowly escaped death by the ...
... first fourteen lines of ode 7. lib . 1. he mentions feveral towns and diftricts more to the taste of fome than of others in the remainder of the ode , Plancus is exhorted to drown his cares in wine . Having narrowly escaped death by the ...
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