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... mind of the student . In addition to the ques Blair's Lectures . - The excellence of Dr. Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres , has been so But , although it is important to have the work freed from inaccuracies of these ...
... mind of the student . In addition to the ques Blair's Lectures . - The excellence of Dr. Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres , has been so But , although it is important to have the work freed from inaccuracies of these ...
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... mind , and to supply him with rational and useful entertainment . They open a field of investigation peculiar to themselves . All that relates to beauty , harmony , grandeur , and elegance ; all that can sooth the mind , gratify the ...
... mind , and to supply him with rational and useful entertainment . They open a field of investigation peculiar to themselves . All that relates to beauty , harmony , grandeur , and elegance ; all that can sooth the mind , gratify the ...
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... mind , while bad passions possess the interior regions of the heart . At the same time this cannot but be admitted , that the exercise of taste is , in its native tendency , moral and purifying . From reading the most admired ...
... mind , while bad passions possess the interior regions of the heart . At the same time this cannot but be admitted , that the exercise of taste is , in its native tendency , moral and purifying . From reading the most admired ...
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... mind . I shall next consider , how far it is an improveable faculty . I shall show the sources of its im- provement , and the characters of taste in its most perfect state . I shall then examine the various fluctuations to which it is ...
... mind . I shall next consider , how far it is an improveable faculty . I shall show the sources of its im- provement , and the characters of taste in its most perfect state . I shall then examine the various fluctuations to which it is ...
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... mind , the inaccurate use of words is to be carefully avoided , it must not be inferred from what I have said , that reason is entirely excluded from the exertions of taste . Though taste , beyond doubt , be ultimately founded on a ...
... mind , the inaccurate use of words is to be carefully avoided , it must not be inferred from what I have said , that reason is entirely excluded from the exertions of taste . Though taste , beyond doubt , be ultimately founded on a ...
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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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