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... whole town of Jedburgh , a Border market center a few miles from Kames's farm . At the same date , in the whole of Scotland , there were barely a dozen private collections of what today we regard as art . The Argument of Elements of ...
... whole town of Jedburgh , a Border market center a few miles from Kames's farm . At the same date , in the whole of Scotland , there were barely a dozen private collections of what today we regard as art . The Argument of Elements of ...
Page 127
... whole did before the division . If , on the other hand , the whole be very small , so as scarce to fill the eye at one look , its divisions into parts will , I conjecture , make it appear still less : the minuteness of the parts is , by ...
... whole did before the division . If , on the other hand , the whole be very small , so as scarce to fill the eye at one look , its divisions into parts will , I conjecture , make it appear still less : the minuteness of the parts is , by ...
Page 144
... whole attention . * For the same reason , the impression made by an object that divides the attention by the multiplicity of its parts , equals not that of a more simple object comprehended in a single view : parts ex- tremely complex ...
... whole attention . * For the same reason , the impression made by an object that divides the attention by the multiplicity of its parts , equals not that of a more simple object comprehended in a single view : parts ex- tremely complex ...
Contents
Beauty of Language with respect to Signification | 18 |
Beauty of Language from a resemblance between Sound and Signification | 83 |
Influence of Passion with respect to our Perceptions Opinions and Belief 152 | 112 |
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