LECTURES ON RHETORIC AND BELLES LETTRES: IN THREE VOLUMES.W. STRACHAN, 1785 |
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... mind , and to fupply him with rational and useful entertainment . They open a field of investigation peculiar to themselves . All that relates to beauty , har- mony , grandeur , and elegance ; all that can footh the mind , gratify the ...
... mind , and to fupply him with rational and useful entertainment . They open a field of investigation peculiar to themselves . All that relates to beauty , har- mony , grandeur , and elegance ; all that can footh the mind , gratify the ...
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... mind , than in the entertainments of taste , and the study of polite literature ? He who is fo happy as to have acquired a relish for these , has always at hand an innocent and irre proachable amusement for his leifure hours , to fave ...
... mind , than in the entertainments of taste , and the study of polite literature ? He who is fo happy as to have acquired a relish for these , has always at hand an innocent and irre proachable amusement for his leifure hours , to fave ...
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... mind after the toils of the intellect , and the labours of abstract study ; and they gradually raise it above the ... minds have this liberal and elegant turn . It is favourable to many virtues . Whereas , to be entirely devoid of relish ...
... mind after the toils of the intellect , and the labours of abstract study ; and they gradually raise it above the ... minds have this liberal and elegant turn . It is favourable to many virtues . Whereas , to be entirely devoid of relish ...
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... minds public fpirit , the love of glory , contempt of external fortune , and the admiration of what is truly illuftrious and ... mind . reforming reforming the corrupt propenfities which too frequently prevail among mankind 16 INTRODUCTION .
... minds public fpirit , the love of glory , contempt of external fortune , and the admiration of what is truly illuftrious and ... mind . reforming reforming the corrupt propenfities which too frequently prevail among mankind 16 INTRODUCTION .
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... mind , while bad paffions poffefs the interior regions of the heart . At the fame time this cannot but be admitted , that the exercife of tafte is , in its native ten- dency , moral and purifying . From reading the most admired ...
... mind , while bad paffions poffefs the interior regions of the heart . At the fame time this cannot but be admitted , that the exercife of tafte is , in its native ten- dency , moral and purifying . From reading the most admired ...
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