Elements of Criticism, Volume 1Bell, 1785 - 518 pages |
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... perfon would hesitate to pronounce , that the pleasure arifing from touching a smooth , foft , and velvet furface , has its existence at the ends of the fingers , without once dreaming of its exifting any where else . A resemble ...
... perfon would hesitate to pronounce , that the pleasure arifing from touching a smooth , foft , and velvet furface , has its existence at the ends of the fingers , without once dreaming of its exifting any where else . A resemble ...
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... perfon will , or to what purpose , if there be nothing in view ? We cannot form a conception of fuch a thing . If this argument need confirmation , I urge ex- perience whoever makes a trial will find , that ideas are linked together in ...
... perfon will , or to what purpose , if there be nothing in view ? We cannot form a conception of fuch a thing . If this argument need confirmation , I urge ex- perience whoever makes a trial will find , that ideas are linked together in ...
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... perfons , thoughts and cir . cumstances crowd upon each other by the flightest connections . I ascribe this to a bluntness in the difcerning faculty ; for a perfon who cannot accu- rately rately diftinguish between a flight connection ...
... perfons , thoughts and cir . cumstances crowd upon each other by the flightest connections . I ascribe this to a bluntness in the difcerning faculty ; for a perfon who cannot accu- rately rately diftinguish between a flight connection ...
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... perfon must neceffarily have a great flow of ideas , because they are introduced by any relation indifferently ; and the flighter relations , being without number , furnish ideas without end . This doctrine is , in a lively manner ...
... perfon must neceffarily have a great flow of ideas , because they are introduced by any relation indifferently ; and the flighter relations , being without number , furnish ideas without end . This doctrine is , in a lively manner ...
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... perfon , our pain is of the fame kind with what we felt when eye - witneffes . In a word , an agree- able or difagreeable object recalled to the mind in idea , is the occafion of a pleasant or painful emo- tion , of the fame kind with ...
... perfon , our pain is of the fame kind with what we felt when eye - witneffes . In a word , an agree- able or difagreeable object recalled to the mind in idea , is the occafion of a pleasant or painful emo- tion , of the fame kind with ...
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action againſt agreeable alfo alſo appear arifing beauty becauſe cafe cauſe chap circumſtances connection contraft courſe cuſtom defcribing defire degree deſcription difagreeable diſcover diſtinguiſhed effect elevation emotion raiſed exiſtence expreffed expreffion external figns faid fame feeling fenfe fenfible fentiments fhall fhould fight fimilar final caufe fingle fingular fion firft firſt focial fome fometimes fpecies fpectator ftill fubject fublime fucceffion fuch fufficient furpriſe fwell grandeur gratification greateſt habit hath himſelf impreffion inftances itſelf ject juſt laſt lefs leſs meaſure mind moſt motion mufic muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary novelty obfervation object occafion oppofite Othello paffage paffion pain perceptions perfon pleaſant emotion pleaſure prefent produce produceth puniſhment purpoſe raiſed reaſon reflection refpect reliſh reſemblance riety rifible ſcarce Sejanus ſenſe Shakeſpear ſhall ſome ſpectator ſtate ſtill ſtrong ſuch taſte thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thou tion uſe