The Spectator. Volume the First. [-eighth.].J. and R. Tonson in the Strand., 1744 |
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Page 43
... Reason , and which would improve our Virtue in pro- portion as it raised our Delight . The Paffions that are excited by ordinary Compofitions generally flow from fuch filly and abfurd Occafions , that a Man is ashamed to reflect upon ...
... Reason , and which would improve our Virtue in pro- portion as it raised our Delight . The Paffions that are excited by ordinary Compofitions generally flow from fuch filly and abfurd Occafions , that a Man is ashamed to reflect upon ...
Page 80
... Reason I take to be , because in these Figures we generally fee more of the Body , than in those of other Kinds . There are , indeed , Figures of Bodies , where the Eye may take in two Thirds of the Surface ; but as in fuch Bodies the ...
... Reason I take to be , because in these Figures we generally fee more of the Body , than in those of other Kinds . There are , indeed , Figures of Bodies , where the Eye may take in two Thirds of the Surface ; but as in fuch Bodies the ...
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... Reason is more to be re- garded than the Bent of any prefent Inclination , fince by the Rule above - mentioned , Inclination will at length come over to Reason , though we can never force Rea- fon to comply with Inclination . IN the ...
... Reason is more to be re- garded than the Bent of any prefent Inclination , fince by the Rule above - mentioned , Inclination will at length come over to Reason , though we can never force Rea- fon to comply with Inclination . IN the ...
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