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... comprehends the power of doing in general without specifying the quality or degree ; capacity is a particular kind of abili.y . Ability may be either physical or mental , capacity , when said of persons , is mental only ; ' Riches are ...
... comprehends the power of doing in general without specifying the quality or degree ; capacity is a particular kind of abili.y . Ability may be either physical or mental , capacity , when said of persons , is mental only ; ' Riches are ...
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... comprehends knowledge . In- genuity displays itself in the mode of conducting ar argument ; Men were formerly won over to opinions , by the candour , sense , and ingenuity of those who had But humour runs in a vein ; it is not a ...
... comprehends knowledge . In- genuity displays itself in the mode of conducting ar argument ; Men were formerly won over to opinions , by the candour , sense , and ingenuity of those who had But humour runs in a vein ; it is not a ...
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... comprehends the thinking faculty in general with all its operations ; the intellect includes only that part of it which consists in understanding and judgement : mental is therefore opposed to corporeal ; intellectual is opposed to ...
... comprehends the thinking faculty in general with all its operations ; the intellect includes only that part of it which consists in understanding and judgement : mental is therefore opposed to corporeal ; intellectual is opposed to ...
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... comprehending respects principles , lessons , and speculative knowledge in general . " The artist conceives a design ... comprehends the abstrusest points . There are human beings involved in such profound ignorance , that they cannot ...
... comprehending respects principles , lessons , and speculative knowledge in general . " The artist conceives a design ... comprehends the abstrusest points . There are human beings involved in such profound ignorance , that they cannot ...
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... comprehends the act of choosing and being |. And had not men the hoary head rever'd , And boys paid reverence when a man appear'd , Both must have died , though richer skins they wore , And saw more heaps of acorns in their store ...
... comprehends the act of choosing and being |. And had not men the hoary head rever'd , And boys paid reverence when a man appear'd , Both must have died , though richer skins they wore , And saw more heaps of acorns in their store ...
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according action ADDISON affections applied authority bad sense body cause cern character characteristick Christian Cicero circumstances comes common commonly compounded comprehends conduct consequence degree denotes disposition distinction Divine DRYDEN duty employed epithets errour evil exertion expresses favour feeling former French frequently friends generick German give Greek habits happy heart Hebrew hence honour human humour idea implies individual inferiour judgement labour Latin latter less likewise Low German manner marks means ment mind mode moral nature ness never nexion object offender one's opinion opposed ordinary ourselves pain participle particular passions perly person Pisistratus pleasure POPE principles produce publick racter regard religion render respects Saxon sentiment SHAKSPEARE signifies literally society sometimes soul speak species specifick spects spirit superiour supposed temper thing tion Titus Manlius Torquatus tremour uncon vice vidual violence virtue wish word