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Page 117
... wonder , and fometimes of terror . Emotions raised by inanimate objects , trees , rivers , buildings , pictures , arrive at perfec- tion almost instantaneously ; and they have a long endurance , a fecond view producing nearly the fame ...
... wonder , and fometimes of terror . Emotions raised by inanimate objects , trees , rivers , buildings , pictures , arrive at perfec- tion almost instantaneously ; and they have a long endurance , a fecond view producing nearly the fame ...
Page 119
... Wonder and furprise are always produced in perfection : reiterated impreffions made by their cause , exhauft these paffions inftead of inflaming them . This will be explained after- ward ' . In the next place , when a paffion hath for ...
... Wonder and furprise are always produced in perfection : reiterated impreffions made by their cause , exhauft these paffions inftead of inflaming them . This will be explained after- ward ' . In the next place , when a paffion hath for ...
Page 122
... wonder and fur- prife , which also fuddenly decay , another reafon concurs that their caufes are of fhort duration : novelty foon degenerates into familiarity ; and the unexpectedness of an object , is foon funk in the pleasure that the ...
... wonder and fur- prife , which also fuddenly decay , another reafon concurs that their caufes are of fhort duration : novelty foon degenerates into familiarity ; and the unexpectedness of an object , is foon funk in the pleasure that the ...
Page 164
... wonder , and perhaps of dread ; and thefe emo- tions impofing upon a weak ' mind , imprefs upon it a thorough conviction contrary to reafon . Opinion and belief are influenced by propensity as well as by pallion . An innate propenfity ...
... wonder , and perhaps of dread ; and thefe emo- tions impofing upon a weak ' mind , imprefs upon it a thorough conviction contrary to reafon . Opinion and belief are influenced by propensity as well as by pallion . An innate propenfity ...
Page 176
... wonder . That emotion , however flight , imposes on the mind , and makes it judge that the plain is larger than it is in reality . Divide the plain into parts , and our wonder ceafes : it is no longer confidered as one great plain , but ...
... wonder . That emotion , however flight , imposes on the mind , and makes it judge that the plain is larger than it is in reality . Divide the plain into parts , and our wonder ceafes : it is no longer confidered as one great plain , but ...
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