Elements of Criticism: In Three Volumes. ...A. Millar, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1762 |
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... habit ; and a habit , ftrengthening the reafoning faculties , prepares the mind for entering into fubjects more difficult and abstract . To have , in this refpect , a juft conception of the importance of criticism , we need but reflect ...
... habit ; and a habit , ftrengthening the reafoning faculties , prepares the mind for entering into fubjects more difficult and abstract . To have , in this refpect , a juft conception of the importance of criticism , we need but reflect ...
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... habit . Did our moral feelings extend no farther than to approve the action and to bestow our affecti- on on the author , good example would not have great influence . But to give it the utmoft force , nothing * See Effays upon morality ...
... habit . Did our moral feelings extend no farther than to approve the action and to bestow our affecti- on on the author , good example would not have great influence . But to give it the utmoft force , nothing * See Effays upon morality ...
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... habit of virtue . Intercourse with men of worth , hiftories of generous and difinterested actions , and frequent meditation upon them , keep the fym- pathetic emotion in conftant exercife , which by de- grees introduceth a habit , and ...
... habit of virtue . Intercourse with men of worth , hiftories of generous and difinterested actions , and frequent meditation upon them , keep the fym- pathetic emotion in conftant exercife , which by de- grees introduceth a habit , and ...
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... habit as well as by principle . I now , further obferve , that examples drawn from real events , are not fo fre- quent as to contribute much to a habit of virtue . If they be , they are not recorded by historians . It therefore shows ...
... habit as well as by principle . I now , further obferve , that examples drawn from real events , are not fo fre- quent as to contribute much to a habit of virtue . If they be , they are not recorded by historians . It therefore shows ...
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... habit of affection for that perfon , now my friend . Affection thus produced , operates precife- ly like an original propenfity . To enliven it into a paffion , no more is required but the real or ideal prefence of the object . The habit ...
... habit of affection for that perfon , now my friend . Affection thus produced , operates precife- ly like an original propenfity . To enliven it into a paffion , no more is required but the real or ideal prefence of the object . The habit ...
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