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... render this little volume acceptable to the public . To collect knowledge , which is scattered over a wide extent ... rendered as concise as possible . Hence the attention is not fatigued , nor the memory overloaded . That the knowledge ...
... render this little volume acceptable to the public . To collect knowledge , which is scattered over a wide extent ... rendered as concise as possible . Hence the attention is not fatigued , nor the memory overloaded . That the knowledge ...
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... render it sublime . Hence infinite space , endless numbers , and eternal duration , fill the mind with great ideas . The most copious source of sublime ideas seems to be derived from the exertion of great power and force . Hence the ...
... render it sublime . Hence infinite space , endless numbers , and eternal duration , fill the mind with great ideas . The most copious source of sublime ideas seems to be derived from the exertion of great power and force . Hence the ...
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... renders burlesque and ridiculous , by the single circumstance of one of his giants , with the mountain Ida upon his ... render this ridiculous ? -How has Virgil been guilty of an inaccuracy of this kind ? -How does this also appear in a ...
... renders burlesque and ridiculous , by the single circumstance of one of his giants , with the mountain Ida upon his ... render this ridiculous ? -How has Virgil been guilty of an inaccuracy of this kind ? -How does this also appear in a ...
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... render the beauty greater and more complex . Thus in flowers , trees , and animals , we are entertained at once with the delicacy of the colour , with the gracefulness of the figure , and some- times also with the motion of the object ...
... render the beauty greater and more complex . Thus in flowers , trees , and animals , we are entertained at once with the delicacy of the colour , with the gracefulness of the figure , and some- times also with the motion of the object ...
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... rendered those helps entirely necessary for explaining their conceptions ; and rude , unculti- vated individuals , not having always ready even the few words which they knew , would naturally labour to make themselves understood by ...
... rendered those helps entirely necessary for explaining their conceptions ; and rude , unculti- vated individuals , not having always ready even the few words which they knew , would naturally labour to make themselves understood by ...
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