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Pagina 31
... thing as trifling , or contemptible , that may be dangerous . To heighten this terror , obscurity , in general , seems necessary . When we know the full extent of any danger , when we accustom our eyes to it , a great deal of the ...
... thing as trifling , or contemptible , that may be dangerous . To heighten this terror , obscurity , in general , seems necessary . When we know the full extent of any danger , when we accustom our eyes to it , a great deal of the ...
Pagina 210
... thing , that may lessen his good opinion of himself.- -This renders 15 him incurable , like diseases , that grow ... things , his own malice , and the faults of another ! ' He is not much concerned whether what he writes be true or 25 ...
... thing , that may lessen his good opinion of himself.- -This renders 15 him incurable , like diseases , that grow ... things , his own malice , and the faults of another ! ' He is not much concerned whether what he writes be true or 25 ...
Pagina 478
... thing is expressed , it is generally the more sublime . True eloquence does not consist , as the rhetoricians assure us , in saying great things in a sublime style , but in a simple style ; for there is , properly speaking , no such thing ...
... thing is expressed , it is generally the more sublime . True eloquence does not consist , as the rhetoricians assure us , in saying great things in a sublime style , but in a simple style ; for there is , properly speaking , no such thing ...
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