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... sort of logic : the practice of reasoning upon subjects so agreeable , tends to a habit ; and a ha- bit , strengthening the reasoning faculties , prepares the mind for entering into subjects more intricate and abstract . To have , in ...
... sort of logic : the practice of reasoning upon subjects so agreeable , tends to a habit ; and a ha- bit , strengthening the reasoning faculties , prepares the mind for entering into subjects more intricate and abstract . To have , in ...
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... sort of retrograde motion , which is unpleasant . And here may be remark- ed the great influence of order upon the mind of man ; grandeur , which makes a deep impression inclines us , in running over any series , to proceed from small ...
... sort of retrograde motion , which is unpleasant . And here may be remark- ed the great influence of order upon the mind of man ; grandeur , which makes a deep impression inclines us , in running over any series , to proceed from small ...
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... sort of emotion . But it is sufficient for the present purpose to answer , That the eye never abstracts ; by that organ we perceive things as they really ex- ist , and never perceive a quality as separated from the subject . Hence it ...
... sort of emotion . But it is sufficient for the present purpose to answer , That the eye never abstracts ; by that organ we perceive things as they really ex- ist , and never perceive a quality as separated from the subject . Hence it ...
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... sort of excess . The playhouse be- comes his favourite amusement ; and he is enchanted with the gaiety and splendour of the chief personages . The disgust which vice gives him at first , soon wears off , to make way for new notions ...
... sort of excess . The playhouse be- comes his favourite amusement ; and he is enchanted with the gaiety and splendour of the chief personages . The disgust which vice gives him at first , soon wears off , to make way for new notions ...
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... sort . When we contemplate a virtuous action , which fails not to prompt our love for the author , our propensity at the same time to such actions is so much enlivened , as to become for a time an actual emotion . But no man hath a ...
... sort . When we contemplate a virtuous action , which fails not to prompt our love for the author , our propensity at the same time to such actions is so much enlivened , as to become for a time an actual emotion . But no man hath a ...
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Page 188 - To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue, A curse shall light upon the limbs of men ; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...
Page 181 - Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 229 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? O no, the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse : Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more Than when it bites, but lanceth not the sore.
Page 379 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
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Page 75 - Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate, Whereof by parcels...