Elements of Criticism, Volume 1Bell, 1785 - 518 pages |
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... operation , to what are more difficult ; and are not permitted to make a new motion , till they are perfected in thofe which go before . Thus the fcience of criticism may be considered as a middle link , connecting the different parts ...
... operation , to what are more difficult ; and are not permitted to make a new motion , till they are perfected in thofe which go before . Thus the fcience of criticism may be considered as a middle link , connecting the different parts ...
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... operations ; for it always directs our ideas in the order of nature : thinking upon a body in motion , we follow its natural ' courfe ; the mind falls with a heavy body , defcends with a river , and afcends with flame and smoke : in tra ...
... operations ; for it always directs our ideas in the order of nature : thinking upon a body in motion , we follow its natural ' courfe ; the mind falls with a heavy body , defcends with a river , and afcends with flame and smoke : in tra ...
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... we must examine minutely that operation of the mind by which a paffion is extended to a related object . In confi * Aulus Gellius , lib . 5. cap . 14 . dering two things as related , the mind is not dering Part I. 77 EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS .
... we must examine minutely that operation of the mind by which a paffion is extended to a related object . In confi * Aulus Gellius , lib . 5. cap . 14 . dering two things as related , the mind is not dering Part I. 77 EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS .
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Henry Home. the latter manner , they frequently afford fecurity when the flower operations of deliberate reafon would be too late : we take nourishment com- monly , not by the direction of reason , but by the impulse of hunger and thirst ...
Henry Home. the latter manner , they frequently afford fecurity when the flower operations of deliberate reafon would be too late : we take nourishment com- monly , not by the direction of reason , but by the impulse of hunger and thirst ...
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Henry Home. Thus between a passion and its object there is a natural operation , resembling action and reaction in phyfics : a paffion acting upon its object , mag- nifies it greatly in appearance ; and this magnified object reacting ...
Henry Home. Thus between a passion and its object there is a natural operation , resembling action and reaction in phyfics : a paffion acting upon its object , mag- nifies it greatly in appearance ; and this magnified object reacting ...
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