Elements of Criticism: In Three Volumes. ...A. Millar, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1762 |
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... body in motion , we follow its natural courfe . The mind falls with a heavy body , defcends with a river , and afcends with flame and fmoke . In tracing out a family , we incline to begin at the founder , and to defcend gradually to his ...
... body in motion , we follow its natural courfe . The mind falls with a heavy body , defcends with a river , and afcends with flame and fmoke . In tracing out a family , we incline to begin at the founder , and to defcend gradually to his ...
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... body or of mind . The circumstances now mentioned , if they cause or occafion a paflion , cannot be entirely indiffe- rent : if they were , they could not move us in any degree . And we find upon examination , that they are not ...
... body or of mind . The circumstances now mentioned , if they cause or occafion a paflion , cannot be entirely indiffe- rent : if they were , they could not move us in any degree . And we find upon examination , that they are not ...
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... body fo and fo qualified . Thus a fpreading oak raifes a pleafant emotion , by means of its colour , figure , umbrage , & c . It is not the colour ftrictly fpeaking that produces the emotion , but the tree as coloured : it is not the ...
... body fo and fo qualified . Thus a fpreading oak raifes a pleafant emotion , by means of its colour , figure , umbrage , & c . It is not the colour ftrictly fpeaking that produces the emotion , but the tree as coloured : it is not the ...
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... body ; and in no fituation doth forrow rise to a greater height , than upon the removal of what makes us happy . The fenfibility of our nature ferves in part to account for thefe effects . Other caufes also concur . We can be under no ...
... body ; and in no fituation doth forrow rise to a greater height , than upon the removal of what makes us happy . The fenfibility of our nature ferves in part to account for thefe effects . Other caufes also concur . We can be under no ...
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... body , becomes stronger by exercise . Proper means , at the fame time , being ever at hand to raise this sympathetic emotion , its frequent reiteration may , in a good measure , fup- ply the want of a more complete exercife . by proper ...
... body , becomes stronger by exercise . Proper means , at the fame time , being ever at hand to raise this sympathetic emotion , its frequent reiteration may , in a good measure , fup- ply the want of a more complete exercife . by proper ...
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