Elements of Criticism, Volume 1Bell, 1785 - 518 pages |
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... reason- ing faculties , prepares the mind for entering into fubjects more intricate and abstract . To have , in that refpect , a juft conception of the importance of criticism , we need but reflect upon the ordinary method of education ...
... reason- ing faculties , prepares the mind for entering into fubjects more intricate and abstract . To have , in that refpect , a juft conception of the importance of criticism , we need but reflect upon the ordinary method of education ...
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... to calmness and fedateness . Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every paffion ; but feldom delicacy of tafte . Upon a man pof . feffcd Rude ages exhibit the triumph of authority o- ver reason INTRODUCTION .
... to calmness and fedateness . Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every paffion ; but feldom delicacy of tafte . Upon a man pof . feffcd Rude ages exhibit the triumph of authority o- ver reason INTRODUCTION .
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Henry Home. Rude ages exhibit the triumph of authority o- ver reason : Philofophers anciently were divided into fects , being Epicureans , Platonifts , Stoics , Pythagoreans , or Sceptics : the fpeculative relied no farther on their own ...
Henry Home. Rude ages exhibit the triumph of authority o- ver reason : Philofophers anciently were divided into fects , being Epicureans , Platonifts , Stoics , Pythagoreans , or Sceptics : the fpeculative relied no farther on their own ...
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... reason makes probable , that the train of our thoughts is in a great measure regulated by the foregoing relations : an external object is no fooner presented to us in idea , than it fuggefts to the mind other objects to which it is ...
... reason makes probable , that the train of our thoughts is in a great measure regulated by the foregoing relations : an external object is no fooner presented to us in idea , than it fuggefts to the mind other objects to which it is ...
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... reason to expect the fame from those which are in- ternal ; and accordingly power , difcernment , wit , mildnefs , fympathy , courage , benevolence , are a greeable in a high degree : upon perceiving these qualities in others , we ...
... reason to expect the fame from those which are in- ternal ; and accordingly power , difcernment , wit , mildnefs , fympathy , courage , benevolence , are a greeable in a high degree : upon perceiving these qualities in others , we ...
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