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... course our sympathy , which is the capital branch of every focial paffion . Sym- pathy invites a communication of joys and for- rows , hopes and fears : fuch exercise , foothing and fatisfactory in itself , is neceffarily productive of ...
... course our sympathy , which is the capital branch of every focial paffion . Sym- pathy invites a communication of joys and for- rows , hopes and fears : fuch exercise , foothing and fatisfactory in itself , is neceffarily productive of ...
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... course ; a body in motion , we follow its the mind falls with a heavy body , defcends with a river , and afcends with flame and fmoke : in tra- cing out a family , we incline to begin at the found- er , and to defcend gradually to his ...
... course ; a body in motion , we follow its the mind falls with a heavy body , defcends with a river , and afcends with flame and fmoke : in tra- cing out a family , we incline to begin at the found- er , and to defcend gradually to his ...
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... course in the analytic method , we have a fenfible pleasure , like mounting upward , which is not felt in the other : the analytic method is more agree- able to the imagination ; the other method will be preferred by thofe only who with ...
... course in the analytic method , we have a fenfible pleasure , like mounting upward , which is not felt in the other : the analytic method is more agree- able to the imagination ; the other method will be preferred by thofe only who with ...
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... course of nature , or contrary to our sense of order : the mind proceeds with alacrity down a flowing river ; and with the fame alacrity from a whole to its parts , or from a principal to its acceffories : but in the contrary direction ...
... course of nature , or contrary to our sense of order : the mind proceeds with alacrity down a flowing river ; and with the fame alacrity from a whole to its parts , or from a principal to its acceffories : but in the contrary direction ...
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... course of nature is joined with ele- vation , the effect must be delightful : and hence the fingular beauty of fmoke afcending in a calın morning . I am extremely fenfible of the difguft men ge- nerally have to abftract fpeculations ...
... course of nature is joined with ele- vation , the effect must be delightful : and hence the fingular beauty of fmoke afcending in a calın morning . I am extremely fenfible of the difguft men ge- nerally have to abftract fpeculations ...
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