Elements of Criticism, Volume 1John Bell and William Creech; and for T. Cadell, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, London., 1788 - 2 pages |
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... fucceffion by any law of neceffity : the God of nature offers it to us , in order to advance our happiness ; and it is fufficient , that he hath enabled us to carry it on in a natural courfe . Nor has he made our task either ...
... fucceffion by any law of neceffity : the God of nature offers it to us , in order to advance our happiness ; and it is fufficient , that he hath enabled us to carry it on in a natural courfe . Nor has he made our task either ...
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... fucceffion ; which must be natural , because it governs all human beings . The law , however , feems not to be inviolable : it fome- times happens that an idea arifes in the mind , without without any perceived connection ; as , for ex ...
... fucceffion ; which must be natural , because it governs all human beings . The law , however , feems not to be inviolable : it fome- times happens that an idea arifes in the mind , without without any perceived connection ; as , for ex ...
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... fucceffion , even of the most beautiful objects , fcarce making any im- preffion ; and if this hold in the fucceffion of original perceptions , how much more in the fuc- ceffion of ideas ? Though all this while I have been only de ...
... fucceffion , even of the most beautiful objects , fcarce making any im- preffion ; and if this hold in the fucceffion of original perceptions , how much more in the fuc- ceffion of ideas ? Though all this while I have been only de ...
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... fucceffion of inci- dents its impreffion indeed is the deepest that can be made inftantaneously ; but seldom is a paffion raised to any height in an instant , or by a fingle impreffion : it was obferved above , that our paffions , those ...
... fucceffion of inci- dents its impreffion indeed is the deepest that can be made inftantaneously ; but seldom is a paffion raised to any height in an instant , or by a fingle impreffion : it was obferved above , that our paffions , those ...
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... fucceffion : Then dy'd Scamandrius , expert in the chace , In woods and wilds to wound the favage race ; Diana taught him all her fylvan arts , To bend the bow and aim unerring darts : But vainly here Diana's arts he tries , The fatal ...
... fucceffion : Then dy'd Scamandrius , expert in the chace , In woods and wilds to wound the favage race ; Diana taught him all her fylvan arts , To bend the bow and aim unerring darts : But vainly here Diana's arts he tries , The fatal ...
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