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... Action , 2. Power of Sounds to raife Emotions and Paffions , - 3. Caufes of the Emotions of Joy and Sorrow , 4. Sympathetic Emotion of Virtue , and its caufe . - 5. In many infances one Emotion is productive of another . The fame of ...
... Action , 2. Power of Sounds to raife Emotions and Paffions , - 3. Caufes of the Emotions of Joy and Sorrow , 4. Sympathetic Emotion of Virtue , and its caufe . - 5. In many infances one Emotion is productive of another . The fame of ...
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... actions of others : he loves to cherish them , and to publish them to the world ; faults and failings , it is true , are to him no lefs obvious ; but these he avoids or re- moves out of fight , because they give him pain . On the other ...
... actions of others : he loves to cherish them , and to publish them to the world ; faults and failings , it is true , are to him no lefs obvious ; but these he avoids or re- moves out of fight , because they give him pain . On the other ...
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... action wrong or improper must be highly disguftful : if , in any inftance , the overbearing power of paffion fway him from his duty , he returns to it with redoubled refolution never to be fwayed a fecond time : he has now an additional ...
... action wrong or improper must be highly disguftful : if , in any inftance , the overbearing power of paffion fway him from his duty , he returns to it with redoubled refolution never to be fwayed a fecond time : he has now an additional ...
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... actions . With regard to perceptions I obferve , that in things of equal rank , fuch as fheep in a fold , or trees in a wood , it must be indifferent in what order they be furveyed . But in things of unequal rank , our tendency is , to ...
... actions . With regard to perceptions I obferve , that in things of equal rank , fuch as fheep in a fold , or trees in a wood , it must be indifferent in what order they be furveyed . But in things of unequal rank , our tendency is , to ...
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... : the reader is not prepa red for that important event : no cause is affigned that can make it appear neceffary , or even natural , Lin , 136 . • Lin 475 . to fufpend for so long a time the principal action Ch . I. 29 IN A TRAIN .
... : the reader is not prepa red for that important event : no cause is affigned that can make it appear neceffary , or even natural , Lin , 136 . • Lin 475 . to fufpend for so long a time the principal action Ch . I. 29 IN A TRAIN .
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