Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects: In Two Volumes, Band 2George Caw, 1800 - 527 Seiten |
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... preference above the accurate and abftrufe ; and by many will be recommended , not only as more agreeable , but more useful , than the other . It enters more into common common life ; moulds the heart and affections ; and SECTION I.
... preference above the accurate and abftrufe ; and by many will be recommended , not only as more agreeable , but more useful , than the other . It enters more into common common life ; moulds the heart and affections ; and SECTION I.
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... useful to the painter in delineating even a VENUS or an HELEN . While the latter employs all the richest colours of his art , and gives his figures the moft graceful and engaging airs ; he must still carry his attention to the inward ...
... useful to the painter in delineating even a VENUS or an HELEN . While the latter employs all the richest colours of his art , and gives his figures the moft graceful and engaging airs ; he must still carry his attention to the inward ...
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... useful , by exciting curiofity , and deftroying that implicit faith and security which is the bane of all reasoning and free inquiry . The discovery of defects in the common phi- lofophy , if any fuch there be , will not , I prefume ...
... useful , by exciting curiofity , and deftroying that implicit faith and security which is the bane of all reasoning and free inquiry . The discovery of defects in the common phi- lofophy , if any fuch there be , will not , I prefume ...
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... useful to us , and makes us expect , for the future , a fimilar train of events with thofe which have appeared in the past . Without the influence of cuftom , we should be entirely ignorant of every matter of fact , beyond what is imme ...
... useful to us , and makes us expect , for the future , a fimilar train of events with thofe which have appeared in the past . Without the influence of cuftom , we should be entirely ignorant of every matter of fact , beyond what is imme ...
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... useful as long as the world endures . For fo long , I presume , will the accounts of miracles and prodigies be found in all hiftory , facred and profane . Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact ; it ...
... useful as long as the world endures . For fo long , I presume , will the accounts of miracles and prodigies be found in all hiftory , facred and profane . Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact ; it ...
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