Elements of CriticismHuntington and Savage, 1845 - 504 pages |
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... Nature hath afforded for computing Time and Belief , and Space , • Part 6. Resemblance of Emotions to their Causes , Part 7. Final Causes of the more frequent Emotions and Passions , Chap . III . Beauty , · Chap . IV . Grandeur and ...
... Nature hath afforded for computing Time and Belief , and Space , • Part 6. Resemblance of Emotions to their Causes , Part 7. Final Causes of the more frequent Emotions and Passions , Chap . III . Beauty , · Chap . IV . Grandeur and ...
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... nature offers it to us , in order to advance our happiness ; and it is sufficient , that he has enabled us to carry on in a natural course . Nor has he made our task either disagree- able or difficult : on the contrary , the transition ...
... nature offers it to us , in order to advance our happiness ; and it is sufficient , that he has enabled us to carry on in a natural course . Nor has he made our task either disagree- able or difficult : on the contrary , the transition ...
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... nature . It could not surely be his opinion , that these poets , however eminent for genius , were entitled to give law to mankind ; and that nothing now remains , but blind obedience to their arbitrary will . If in wri- ting they ...
... nature . It could not surely be his opinion , that these poets , however eminent for genius , were entitled to give law to mankind ; and that nothing now remains , but blind obedience to their arbitrary will . If in wri- ting they ...
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... natural operations ; for it always directs our ideas in the order of nature . Thinking upon a body in motion , we follow its natural course : the mind falls with a heavy body , descends with a river , and ascends with flame and smoke ...
... natural operations ; for it always directs our ideas in the order of nature . Thinking upon a body in motion , we follow its natural course : the mind falls with a heavy body , descends with a river , and ascends with flame and smoke ...
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... nature , however , has still a greater influence than eleva tion and therefore , the pleasure of falling with rain , and descending gradually with a river , prevails over that of mounting upward . But where the course of nature is ...
... nature , however , has still a greater influence than eleva tion and therefore , the pleasure of falling with rain , and descending gradually with a river , prevails over that of mounting upward . But where the course of nature is ...
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