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... feel the truth of these remarks . Genius in its high- est sense is this productive power , for it gene rates beauties of an exalted kind . Its corus- cations flash upon the reader . We are amazed and confounded at its exertions . In ...
... feel the truth of these remarks . Genius in its high- est sense is this productive power , for it gene rates beauties of an exalted kind . Its corus- cations flash upon the reader . We are amazed and confounded at its exertions . In ...
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... feel yourselves obliged to allow that , by the contrivance , de- sign , memory , fancy , reason , and so on . In the same manner , if you see a picture , you judge there was a painter ; if you see a house , you judge there was a builder ...
... feel yourselves obliged to allow that , by the contrivance , de- sign , memory , fancy , reason , and so on . In the same manner , if you see a picture , you judge there was a painter ; if you see a house , you judge there was a builder ...
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... feel the pleasures of real piety ! that prayer and thanksgiving should be performed , as they too often are , not with joy , and love , and gratitude ; but with cold indifference , me . lancholy dejection , or secret horror ! --- Let ...
... feel the pleasures of real piety ! that prayer and thanksgiving should be performed , as they too often are , not with joy , and love , and gratitude ; but with cold indifference , me . lancholy dejection , or secret horror ! --- Let ...
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... feel- ings , than the strong propensity we have to When suppose auditors where there are none ! men are wanting , we address the animal cre- ation ; and , rather than have none to par- take our sentiments , we find sentiment in the ...
... feel- ings , than the strong propensity we have to When suppose auditors where there are none ! men are wanting , we address the animal cre- ation ; and , rather than have none to par- take our sentiments , we find sentiment in the ...
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... feels a languor which renders the votaries of pleasure more the objects of pity than of envy ; the other leaves the mind in a tranquil state , satisfied with itself , with surrounding objects , and with its Creator . When weary and ...
... feels a languor which renders the votaries of pleasure more the objects of pity than of envy ; the other leaves the mind in a tranquil state , satisfied with itself , with surrounding objects , and with its Creator . When weary and ...
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