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... mind , ' till we are urged to the purfuit of fomething ftill more new and more engaging : For it is a true , tho ' an un- favourable observation , that the mind of man ( ever ra- pacious and never fatisfied ) is always coveting what it ...
... mind , ' till we are urged to the purfuit of fomething ftill more new and more engaging : For it is a true , tho ' an un- favourable observation , that the mind of man ( ever ra- pacious and never fatisfied ) is always coveting what it ...
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... mind , with this difference , however , that you would have had the various congra- tulations , and fentiments of the whole group of figures . So that what painting gives to the mind by that most pleafing of all our fenfes the fight ...
... mind , with this difference , however , that you would have had the various congra- tulations , and fentiments of the whole group of figures . So that what painting gives to the mind by that most pleafing of all our fenfes the fight ...
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... mind . race and Juvenal , the chief fatyrifts among the Romans , are faulty in this refpect , and ought to be read with cantion . Ho- The style proper for fatire is sometimes grave and ani- mated , inveighing against vice with warmth ...
... mind . race and Juvenal , the chief fatyrifts among the Romans , are faulty in this refpect , and ought to be read with cantion . Ho- The style proper for fatire is sometimes grave and ani- mated , inveighing against vice with warmth ...
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