The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 1A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 - English language |
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... painful feelings .. SECT . I. The different solutions hitherto given by phi- losophers , examined . Part I. The first hypothesis . Part II . The second hypothesis Part III . The third hypothesis . Part IV . The fourth hypothesis ...
... painful feelings .. SECT . I. The different solutions hitherto given by phi- losophers , examined . Part I. The first hypothesis . Part II . The second hypothesis Part III . The third hypothesis . Part IV . The fourth hypothesis ...
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... painful nor pernicious , but unbeseéming : thus a face excites laughter wherein there is deformity and distortion " without pain . " For my part , nothing can appear more coincident than this , as far as it goes , with the principles ...
... painful nor pernicious , but unbeseéming : thus a face excites laughter wherein there is deformity and distortion " without pain . " For my part , nothing can appear more coincident than this , as far as it goes , with the principles ...
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... painful , which we derive from what are called the internal senses , and pronounce concerning beauty or deformi- ty , harmony or discord , the elegant or the ridiculous . The difference between this kind of intuition and the former ...
... painful , which we derive from what are called the internal senses , and pronounce concerning beauty or deformi- ty , harmony or discord , the elegant or the ridiculous . The difference between this kind of intuition and the former ...
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... pains , the immediate subjects of sense , taking that word in the largest acceptation . The former gives rise to those universal truths , first principles or axioms , which serve as the foundation of abstract science ; whereas the lat ...
... pains , the immediate subjects of sense , taking that word in the largest acceptation . The former gives rise to those universal truths , first principles or axioms , which serve as the foundation of abstract science ; whereas the lat ...
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... pain , virtue and vice , wisdom and folly , beauty and deformity , though they admit degrees , yet , as there is no stand- ard or common measure , by which their differences and proportions can be ascertained and expressed in numbers ...
... pain , virtue and vice , wisdom and folly , beauty and deformity , though they admit degrees , yet , as there is no stand- ard or common measure , by which their differences and proportions can be ascertained and expressed in numbers ...
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