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... tion to study or bufinefs , as well as after fatiety from fenfual gratification . Our first perceptions are of external objects , and our firft attachments are to them . Organic pleasures take the lead : but the mind , gradually ...
... tion to study or bufinefs , as well as after fatiety from fenfual gratification . Our first perceptions are of external objects , and our firft attachments are to them . Organic pleasures take the lead : but the mind , gradually ...
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... tion ; for relishing a fine countenance , a rich landscape , or a vivid color , culture is unneceffary . The obferva- tion holds equally in natural founds , fuch as the finging of birds , or the murmuring of a brook . Nature here , the ...
... tion ; for relishing a fine countenance , a rich landscape , or a vivid color , culture is unneceffary . The obferva- tion holds equally in natural founds , fuch as the finging of birds , or the murmuring of a brook . Nature here , the ...
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... tion no enemy more formidable than a delicate and If any youth of a fplendid fortune and English edu- cation ftumble perchance upon this book and this paffage , he will pronounce the latter to be empty declamation . But if he can be ...
... tion no enemy more formidable than a delicate and If any youth of a fplendid fortune and English edu- cation ftumble perchance upon this book and this paffage , he will pronounce the latter to be empty declamation . But if he can be ...
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... now an additional motive to virtue , a convic- tion derived from experience , that happiness de- pends on regularity and order , and that difregard • to justice or propriety never fails to be punished with 12 INTRODUCTION .
... now an additional motive to virtue , a convic- tion derived from experience , that happiness de- pends on regularity and order , and that difregard • to justice or propriety never fails to be punished with 12 INTRODUCTION .
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... tion , delicacy of tafte to calmnefs and fedateness . Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every paffion ; but feldom delicacy of tafle . Upon a man pof- feffed of that bleffing , the moral duties , no less than the ...
... tion , delicacy of tafte to calmnefs and fedateness . Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every paffion ; but feldom delicacy of tafle . Upon a man pof- feffed of that bleffing , the moral duties , no less than the ...
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