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... frequently exert a powerful influence on several departments of human life. Such studies have also this peculiar advantage, that they exercise our reason without fatiguing it. They lead to inquiries acute, but not painful ; profound ...
... frequently exert a powerful influence on several departments of human life. Such studies have also this peculiar advantage, that they exercise our reason without fatiguing it. They lead to inquiries acute, but not painful ; profound ...
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... frequently tb" most important words of any ; they are the joints or hinges upon which all sentences turn, and of ... frequent trials of the different effects produced by a different usage of those particles, must here direct us.* Some ...
... frequently tb" most important words of any ; they are the joints or hinges upon which all sentences turn, and of ... frequent trials of the different effects produced by a different usage of those particles, must here direct us.* Some ...
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... frequently meet ? Between what, therefore, must fie distinguish ? What different effects do they produce? To mention what, does our author now proceed ? What does this always imply ; and with what is it not inconsistent? But from what ...
... frequently meet ? Between what, therefore, must fie distinguish ? What different effects do they produce? To mention what, does our author now proceed ? What does this always imply ; and with what is it not inconsistent? But from what ...
Contents
LECTURE PAS | 10 |
CriticismGeniusPleasures of TasteSublimit in Objects | 27 |
Rise and Progress of Language and of Writing | 68 |
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