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Page 176
... attention which is already en- gaged , and unwilling to be drawn off from certain fatisfaction ; or perhaps to an attention already wearied , and not to be recalled to the fame object . One of the old poets congratulates himfelf , that ...
... attention which is already en- gaged , and unwilling to be drawn off from certain fatisfaction ; or perhaps to an attention already wearied , and not to be recalled to the fame object . One of the old poets congratulates himfelf , that ...
Page 233
... attention upon bulk ; but this is effected by the enumeration , not by the measure ; for what ana- logy can there be between modulations of found , and corporeal dimenfions ? Milton , indeed , feems only to have regarded this fpecies of ...
... attention upon bulk ; but this is effected by the enumeration , not by the measure ; for what ana- logy can there be between modulations of found , and corporeal dimenfions ? Milton , indeed , feems only to have regarded this fpecies of ...
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... attention to changes of countenance , bursts of inconfideration , fallies of paf- fion , and all the other cafualties by which he used to trace a character , yet they could not deny the study of human nature to be worthy of a wife man ...
... attention to changes of countenance , bursts of inconfideration , fallies of paf- fion , and all the other cafualties by which he used to trace a character , yet they could not deny the study of human nature to be worthy of a wife man ...
Contents
A deathbed the true fchool of wiſdom The effects | 54 |
The dignity and uſefulneſs of biography | 60 |
Paffion not to be eradicated | 66 |
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