 I could prove to you in a trice that it is the mother of sentiment, the great distinction of our nature, the only purifier of the passions — animals have a portion of reason, and equal, if not more exquisite, senses; but no trace of imagination, or...  Letters to Imlay - Pagina 59door Mary Wollstonecraft - 1879 - 207 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1878 - 638 pagina’s
...men together; but the imagination is the true fire, stolen from heaven to animate this cold creation of clay, producing all those fine sympathies that...leisure to calculate how many comforts society affords." That Mary Wollstonecraft was gifted with rare intellectual powers the world long since acknowledged... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - 1879 - 288 pagina’s
...distinction of our nature, the only purifier of the passions — animals have a portion of reason, and equal, if not more exquisite, senses ; but no trace...to nonsensical, I shall be apt to retort, that you are embruted by trade and the vulgar enjoyments of life. Bring me then back your barrierface, or you... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - 1879 - 286 pagina’s
...distinction of our nature, the only purifier of the passions — animals have a portion of reason, and equal, if not more exquisite, senses ; but no trace...to nonsensical, I shall be apt to retort, that you are embruted by trade and the vulgar enjoyments of life. Bring me then back your barrierface, or you... | |
 | William Baptiste Scoones - 1880 - 644 pagina’s
...distinction of our nature, the only purifier of the passions —animals have a portion of reason, and equal, if not more exquisite senses; but no trace...to nonsensical, I shall be apt to retort, that you are embruted by trade and the vulgar enjoyments of life. Bring me then back your barrier face, or you... | |
 | William Baptiste Scoones - 1880 - 608 pagina’s
...distinction of our nature, the only purifier of the passions — animals have a portion of reason, and equal, if not more exquisite senses; but no trace...to nonsensical, I shall be apt to retort, that you are embruted by trade and the vulgar enjoyments of life. Bring me then back your barrier face, or you... | |
 | William Baptiste Scoones - 1880 - 606 pagina’s
...distinction of our nature, the only purifier of the passions — animals have a portion of reason, and equal, if not more exquisite senses; but no trace...expanding their hearts, instead of leaving them leisure to calcnlate how many comforts society affords. If you call these observations romantic, a phrase in this... | |
 | William Baptiste Scoones - 1883 - 624 pagina’s
...imagination, or her offspring taste, appears in any of their actions. The impulse of the senses, passions, ii' you will, and the conclusions of reason, draw men...to nonsensical, I shall be apt to retort, that you are embruted by trade and the vulgar enjoyments of life. Bring me then back your barrier face, or you... | |
 | Virginia Sapiro - 1992 - 394 pagina’s
...is the mother of sentiment, the great distinction of our nature, the only purifier of the passions." The impulse of the senses, passions, if you will,...leisure to calculate how many comforts society affords. (Letters 1794:263) Imagination allows a leap past reason. Imagination also gives depth to thought,... | |
 | Diane Jacobs - 2001 - 336 pagina’s
...distinction of our nature, the only purifier of the passions—animals have a portion of reason, and equal, if not more exquisite, senses; but no trace...rapture, rendering men social by expanding their hearts. 10 In September, Mary decided to return to Paris. The journey was "the most fatiguing ... I ever had."... | |
 | Barbara Taylor - 2003 - 356 pagina’s
...distinction of our nature, the only purifier of the passions - animals have a portion of reason, and equal, if not more exquisite, senses; but no trace...rapture, rendering men social by expanding their hearts . . .2 This reverence for the imaginative faculty was relatively new to western thought.3 From Aristotle... | |
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