Elements of Criticism, Volume 1A. Millar and T. Cadell, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1769 - 531 pages |
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... impression , we are not misled to affign a wrong place to the pleafant or painful feelings caufed by that im- preffion ; and therefore we naturally place them in the mind , where they really are : upon that account , they are conceived ...
... impression , we are not misled to affign a wrong place to the pleafant or painful feelings caufed by that im- preffion ; and therefore we naturally place them in the mind , where they really are : upon that account , they are conceived ...
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... impressions ; and for that reafon , read- ing , and still more acting , have greatly the ad- vantage , by the opportunity of reiterating im- preffions without end . Upon the whole , it is by means of ideal pre- fence that our paffions ...
... impressions ; and for that reafon , read- ing , and still more acting , have greatly the ad- vantage , by the opportunity of reiterating im- preffions without end . Upon the whole , it is by means of ideal pre- fence that our paffions ...
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