Elements of Criticism, Volume 1J. Bell and W. Creech, 1785 - 573 pages |
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... reason- ing faculties , prepares the mind for entering into fubjects more intricate and abstract . To have , in that refpect , a juft conception of the importance of criticism , we need but reflect upon the ordinary method of education ...
... reason- ing faculties , prepares the mind for entering into fubjects more intricate and abstract . To have , in that refpect , a juft conception of the importance of criticism , we need but reflect upon the ordinary method of education ...
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... reason : Philofophers anciently were divided into fects , being Epicureans , Platonifts , Stoics , Pythagoreans , or Sceptics : the fpeculative relied no farther on their own judgement but to chufe a leader , whom they implicitly ...
... reason : Philofophers anciently were divided into fects , being Epicureans , Platonifts , Stoics , Pythagoreans , or Sceptics : the fpeculative relied no farther on their own judgement but to chufe a leader , whom they implicitly ...
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... reason makes probable , that the train of our thoughts is in a great measure regulated by the foregoing relations : an external object is no fooner presented to us in idea , than it fuggefts to the mind other objects to which it is ...
... reason makes probable , that the train of our thoughts is in a great measure regulated by the foregoing relations : an external object is no fooner presented to us in idea , than it fuggefts to the mind other objects to which it is ...
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... reason to expect the fame from those which are in- ternal ; and accordingly power , discernment , wit , mildness , fympathy , courage , benevolence , are a- greeable in a high degree : upon perceiving these qualities in others , we ...
... reason to expect the fame from those which are in- ternal ; and accordingly power , discernment , wit , mildness , fympathy , courage , benevolence , are a- greeable in a high degree : upon perceiving these qualities in others , we ...
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... reason , nor are done with view to any confequences . Infants , like brutes , are mostly governed by instinct , without the least view to any end , good or ill . And even adult perfons act fometimes inftinctively : thus one in extreme ...
... reason , nor are done with view to any confequences . Infants , like brutes , are mostly governed by instinct , without the least view to any end , good or ill . And even adult perfons act fometimes inftinctively : thus one in extreme ...
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