Elements of CriticismHuntington and Savage, 1845 - 504 pages |
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... pleasure as existing in the nostrils along with the impression made by the rose upon that organ . And the same will be the result of experiments with respect to every feeling of taste , touch , and smell . Touch affords the most ...
... pleasure as existing in the nostrils along with the impression made by the rose upon that organ . And the same will be the result of experiments with respect to every feeling of taste , touch , and smell . Touch affords the most ...
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... pleasure , which has no relish but while we are in vigor , is ill qualified for that office ; but the finer pleasures of sense , which occupy without exhausting the mind , are finely qualified to restore its usual tone after severe ...
... pleasure , which has no relish but while we are in vigor , is ill qualified for that office ; but the finer pleasures of sense , which occupy without exhausting the mind , are finely qualified to restore its usual tone after severe ...
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... pleasures of the eye and ear have , accordingly , a natural apti tude to draw us from the immoderate gratification of ... pleasure to the eye and the ear , disregarding the inferior senses . A taste for these arts is a plant that grows ...
... pleasures of the eye and ear have , accordingly , a natural apti tude to draw us from the immoderate gratification of ... pleasure to the eye and the ear , disregarding the inferior senses . A taste for these arts is a plant that grows ...
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... pleasure we derive from them . To the man who resigns himself to feeling without inter- posing any judgment , poetry , music , painting , are mere pastime . In the prime of life , indeed , they are delightful , being supported by the ...
... pleasure we derive from them . To the man who resigns himself to feeling without inter- posing any judgment , poetry , music , painting , are mere pastime . In the prime of life , indeed , they are delightful , being supported by the ...
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... pleasure and pain : and , though he flatters himself with having made some progress in that important science , he is , however , too sensible of its extent and difficulty , to undertake it professedly , or to avow it as the chief ...
... pleasure and pain : and , though he flatters himself with having made some progress in that important science , he is , however , too sensible of its extent and difficulty , to undertake it professedly , or to avow it as the chief ...
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