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Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills. XXXTV. Means of improving in Eloquence H#M/ 377 XXXV. Comparative Merit of the Ancients and the Moderns — Historical Writing . 387 XXXVI. Historical Writing .' 3S>8 XXXVII. Philosophical Writing — Dialogue ...
Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills. XXXTV. Means of improving in Eloquence H#M/ 377 XXXV. Comparative Merit of the Ancients and the Moderns — Historical Writing . 387 XXXVI. Historical Writing .' 3S>8 XXXVII. Philosophical Writing — Dialogue ...
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... means of speech , that we are chiefly indebted for the improvement of thought itself . Small are the advances which a single unassisted individual can make towards perfecting any of his powers . What we call hunian reason , is not the ...
... means of speech , that we are chiefly indebted for the improvement of thought itself . Small are the advances which a single unassisted individual can make towards perfecting any of his powers . What we call hunian reason , is not the ...
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... means of disposing the heart to virtue . One thing is certain , and I shall hereafter have occasion to illustrate it more fully , that , without possessing the virtuous affections in a strong degree , no man can attain eminence in the ...
... means of disposing the heart to virtue . One thing is certain , and I shall hereafter have occasion to illustrate it more fully , that , without possessing the virtuous affections in a strong degree , no man can attain eminence in the ...
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... means of clear and precise determination should be afforded us . But to as- certain in every case with the utmost exactness what is beautiful or elegant , was not at all necessary to the happiness of man . And therefore some diversity ...
... means of clear and precise determination should be afforded us . But to as- certain in every case with the utmost exactness what is beautiful or elegant , was not at all necessary to the happiness of man . And therefore some diversity ...
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... mean , low , or trivial expressions ; but it is equally an enemy to such as are turgid . The main secret of being sublime , is to say great things in few and plain words . It will be found to hold without exception , that the most ...
... mean , low , or trivial expressions ; but it is equally an enemy to such as are turgid . The main secret of being sublime , is to say great things in few and plain words . It will be found to hold without exception , that the most ...
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Page 459 - Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name : bring an offering, and come into his courts. O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness : fear before him, all the earth.
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Page 216 - Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very much straitened and confined in its operations to the number, bulk,...