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... ject , and requiring in . the pupil a thorough knowle of the lesson . These questions amount to five thousand seven hundred and fifty in all ; and each lecture is also furnished with a brief analysis , of great convenience and use ...
... ject , and requiring in . the pupil a thorough knowle of the lesson . These questions amount to five thousand seven hundred and fifty in all ; and each lecture is also furnished with a brief analysis , of great convenience and use ...
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... ject will correct the caprice of unenlightened taste , and establish principles for judging of what deserves praise . But , at the same time , these reasonings appeal always in the last resort , to feeling . The foundation upon which ...
... ject will correct the caprice of unenlightened taste , and establish principles for judging of what deserves praise . But , at the same time , these reasonings appeal always in the last resort , to feeling . The foundation upon which ...
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... both systems may be rendered con- sistent . Accordingly , it is in this light that I have endeavoured to place the sub- ject . deciding any of those great controversies in reason and philosophy D 4 LECT . II . ] 25 TASTE .
... both systems may be rendered con- sistent . Accordingly , it is in this light that I have endeavoured to place the sub- ject . deciding any of those great controversies in reason and philosophy D 4 LECT . II . ] 25 TASTE .
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... ject . This is owing , doubtless , to that thinness and subtilty which are found to be properties of all the feelings of taste . They are engaging objects ; but when we would lay firm nold of them , and subject them to a regular ...
... ject . This is owing , doubtless , to that thinness and subtilty which are found to be properties of all the feelings of taste . They are engaging objects ; but when we would lay firm nold of them , and subject them to a regular ...
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... ject , and you presently render it sublime . Hence infinite space , endless numbers , and eternal duration , fill the mind with great ideas . From this some have imagined , that vastness , or amplitude of ex- tent , is the foundation of ...
... ject , and you presently render it sublime . Hence infinite space , endless numbers , and eternal duration , fill the mind with great ideas . From this some have imagined , that vastness , or amplitude of ex- tent , is the foundation of ...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. Blair Hugh Blair,Abraham Mills No preview available - 2015 |
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