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Pagina 110
... senses with pleasing sensations , or by being thought in a secondary manner capable of making other objects contribute to this effect . The pleasures of immediate sensation are coƫval with our senses , and , perhaps , most vivid in ...
... senses with pleasing sensations , or by being thought in a secondary manner capable of making other objects contribute to this effect . The pleasures of immediate sensation are coƫval with our senses , and , perhaps , most vivid in ...
Pagina 278
... sense ; he may make his hearers admire his under- standing , but will seldom enlighten theirs . When I think of the Methodist preachers among us , how seldom they are endued with common- sense , and yet how often and how justly they ...
... sense ; he may make his hearers admire his under- standing , but will seldom enlighten theirs . When I think of the Methodist preachers among us , how seldom they are endued with common- sense , and yet how often and how justly they ...
Pagina 315
... sense ; content , if he can paint to the im- agination without any desires or endeavours to affect ; the public , therefore , with justice discard such empty sound , which has nothing but jingle or , what is worse , the unmusical flow ...
... sense ; content , if he can paint to the im- agination without any desires or endeavours to affect ; the public , therefore , with justice discard such empty sound , which has nothing but jingle or , what is worse , the unmusical flow ...
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CHAPTER | 3 |
III | 21 |
Of the present state of polite learning in Italy | 27 |
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