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But the admirers of this great poet have most reason to complain when he
approaches nearest to his highest excellence, and seems fully resolved to sink
them in dejection, and mollify them with tender emotions, by the fall of greatness,
the ...
But the admirers of this great poet have most reason to complain when he
approaches nearest to his highest excellence, and seems fully resolved to sink
them in dejection, and mollify them with tender emotions, by the fall of greatness,
the ...
Página 152
There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstasy should count the clock,
or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brain that can
make the stage a field. The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses,
...
There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstasy should count the clock,
or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brain that can
make the stage a field. The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses,
...
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Logick, or the art of arranging and connecting ideas, of forming and examining
arguments, is universally allowed to be an attainment in the utmost degree
worthy the ambition of that being whose highest honour is to be endued with
reason ...
Logick, or the art of arranging and connecting ideas, of forming and examining
arguments, is universally allowed to be an attainment in the utmost degree
worthy the ambition of that being whose highest honour is to be endued with
reason ...
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But how much soever the reason may be strengthened by logick, or the
conceptions of the mind enlarged by the study of nature, it is necessary the man
be not suffered to dwell upon them so long as to neglect the study of himself, the
...
But how much soever the reason may be strengthened by logick, or the
conceptions of the mind enlarged by the study of nature, it is necessary the man
be not suffered to dwell upon them so long as to neglect the study of himself, the
...
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If in opposition to these arguments, and in defiance at once of right reason and
general authority, the elliptical arch should at last be chosen, what will the world
believe, than that some other motive than reason influenced the determination ?
If in opposition to these arguments, and in defiance at once of right reason and
general authority, the elliptical arch should at last be chosen, what will the world
believe, than that some other motive than reason influenced the determination ?
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