Essays and treatises on several subjects ... A new edition, Band 1T. Cadell, 1772 |
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... objects chiefly as depend upon himself : and that is not to be attained so much by any other means as by this delicacy of fentiment . When a man is poffeffed of that talent , he is more happy by what pleases his tafte , than by what ...
... objects chiefly as depend upon himself : and that is not to be attained so much by any other means as by this delicacy of fentiment . When a man is poffeffed of that talent , he is more happy by what pleases his tafte , than by what ...
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... objects , which are so fondly purfued by the rest of mankind . On farther re- flection , I find , that it rather improves our fenfibility for all the tender and agreeable paffions ; at the fame time that it renders the mind incapable of ...
... objects , which are so fondly purfued by the rest of mankind . On farther re- flection , I find , that it rather improves our fenfibility for all the tender and agreeable paffions ; at the fame time that it renders the mind incapable of ...
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... objects of terror are wanting , the foul , active to its own prejudice , and foftering its predominant inclination , finds imaginary ones , to whose power and malevolence it fets no limits . As these enemies are entirely invisible and ...
... objects of terror are wanting , the foul , active to its own prejudice , and foftering its predominant inclination , finds imaginary ones , to whose power and malevolence it fets no limits . As these enemies are entirely invisible and ...
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... object of devotion . In a little time , the infpired perfon comes to regard himself as a distinguished favourite of the Divinity ; and when this frenzy once takes place , which is the fum- mit of enthusiasm , every whimsy is confecrated ...
... object of devotion . In a little time , the infpired perfon comes to regard himself as a distinguished favourite of the Divinity ; and when this frenzy once takes place , which is the fum- mit of enthusiasm , every whimsy is confecrated ...
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... objects together , or talk of things that are widely different . In forming our notions of human nature , we are apt to make a comparison between men and animals , the only creatures endowed with thought that fall under our fenfes ...
... objects together , or talk of things that are widely different . In forming our notions of human nature , we are apt to make a comparison between men and animals , the only creatures endowed with thought that fall under our fenfes ...
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