Elements of CriticismHuntington and Savage, 1845 - 504 pages |
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... person would hesitate to pronounce , that the pleasure arising from touching a smooth , soft , and velvet surface , has its existence at the ends of the fingers , without once dreaming of its existing any where else . hearing , being ...
... person would hesitate to pronounce , that the pleasure arising from touching a smooth , soft , and velvet surface , has its existence at the ends of the fingers , without once dreaming of its existing any where else . hearing , being ...
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... person of humanity . Wri- ters , one should imagine , ought , above all others , to be reserved on that article , when they lie so open to retaliation . The author of this treatise , far from being confident of deserving no censure ...
... person of humanity . Wri- ters , one should imagine , ought , above all others , to be reserved on that article , when they lie so open to retaliation . The author of this treatise , far from being confident of deserving no censure ...
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... person win , or to what purpose , if there be nothing in view ? We cannot form a concep- tion of such a thing . If this argument need confirmation , I urge experience : whoever makes a trial will find , that ideas are linked together in ...
... person win , or to what purpose , if there be nothing in view ? We cannot form a concep- tion of such a thing . If this argument need confirmation , I urge experience : whoever makes a trial will find , that ideas are linked together in ...
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... persons , thoughts and circum- stances crowd upon each other by the slightest connections . I ascribe this to a bluntness in the discerning faculty ; for a person who cannot accurately distinguish between a slight connection and one ...
... persons , thoughts and circum- stances crowd upon each other by the slightest connections . I ascribe this to a bluntness in the discerning faculty ; for a person who cannot accurately distinguish between a slight connection and one ...
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... person , it is for good qualities or good offices : if I have resentment against a man , it must be for some injury he has done me : and I cannot . pity any one who is under no distress of body nor of mind . The circumstances now ...
... person , it is for good qualities or good offices : if I have resentment against a man , it must be for some injury he has done me : and I cannot . pity any one who is under no distress of body nor of mind . The circumstances now ...
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