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... with understanding . SECT . II . As endowed with imagination . SECT . III . As endowed with memory . 189 190 195 SECT . IV . As endowed with paffions . 199 SECT . : SECT . V. The circumstances that are chiefly inftru- mental * ii CONTENTS .
... with understanding . SECT . II . As endowed with imagination . SECT . III . As endowed with memory . 189 190 195 SECT . IV . As endowed with paffions . 199 SECT . : SECT . V. The circumstances that are chiefly inftru- mental * ii CONTENTS .
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... imagination . He in this refembles the man of feience , that he acts fyftematically , for there are falfe as well as true theorifts , and is influenced by certain general pro- pofitions , real or imaginary . But the difference lies here ...
... imagination . He in this refembles the man of feience , that he acts fyftematically , for there are falfe as well as true theorifts , and is influenced by certain general pro- pofitions , real or imaginary . But the difference lies here ...
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... imagination is fuf- ceptible by a poetical narrative or exhibition , is a thing , in my judgment , not inconceivable . We Britons , for example , do , by immenfe de- grees , excel the ancient Greeks in the arts of na- vigation and fhip ...
... imagination is fuf- ceptible by a poetical narrative or exhibition , is a thing , in my judgment , not inconceivable . We Britons , for example , do , by immenfe de- grees , excel the ancient Greeks in the arts of na- vigation and fhip ...
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... imagination . Thereby it not only pleases , but by pleafing commands attention , roufes the paffions , and often at laft fubdues the most stubborn resolution . It is alfo a useful art . This is certainly the cafe , if the power of ...
... imagination . Thereby it not only pleases , but by pleafing commands attention , roufes the paffions , and often at laft fubdues the most stubborn resolution . It is alfo a useful art . This is certainly the cafe , if the power of ...
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... imagination , and a certain readiness in language , a more thorough investigation of the latent energies , if I may thus exprefs myfelf , whereby the inftruments employed by eloquence produce their effect upon the hearers , will ferve ...
... imagination , and a certain readiness in language , a more thorough investigation of the latent energies , if I may thus exprefs myfelf , whereby the inftruments employed by eloquence produce their effect upon the hearers , will ferve ...
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