Elements of Criticism: Volume I [-II].A. Millar, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh., 1765 - Criticism |
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... difcover what is right and what is wrong : fafhion , temper , and education , have an influence upon both to vi- tiate them , or to preserve them pure and un- tainted : neither of them are arbitrary or local ; being rooted in human ...
... difcover what is right and what is wrong : fafhion , temper , and education , have an influence upon both to vi- tiate them , or to preserve them pure and un- tainted : neither of them are arbitrary or local ; being rooted in human ...
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... difcover no better foundation for any of them , than the practice merely of Homer and Virgil , fupported by the authority of Ari- ftotle ftrange , that in fo long a work , the con- cordance or difcordance of thefe rules with hu- man ...
... difcover no better foundation for any of them , than the practice merely of Homer and Virgil , fupported by the authority of Ari- ftotle ftrange , that in fo long a work , the con- cordance or difcordance of thefe rules with hu- man ...
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... difcover order as well as connection in their fuc- ceffion . There is implanted in the breaft of e- very man a principle of order , which governs the arrangement of his perceptions , of his ideas , and of his actions . With regard to ...
... difcover order as well as connection in their fuc- ceffion . There is implanted in the breaft of e- very man a principle of order , which governs the arrangement of his perceptions , of his ideas , and of his actions . With regard to ...
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... cumstance in human actions , it generally requires reflection to difcover their true character : 1 fee one delivering a purfe of money to another , but I can make nothing of this action , till I C 2 I Part I. 35 EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS .
... cumstance in human actions , it generally requires reflection to difcover their true character : 1 fee one delivering a purfe of money to another , but I can make nothing of this action , till I C 2 I Part I. 35 EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS .
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... difcover with what intention the money is given : if it be given to discharge a debt , the action pleases me in a flight degree : if it be a grateful return , I feel a ftronger emotion ; and the pleafant emo- tion rifes to a great ...
... difcover with what intention the money is given : if it be given to discharge a debt , the action pleases me in a flight degree : if it be a grateful return , I feel a ftronger emotion ; and the pleafant emo- tion rifes to a great ...
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