Dissertations Moral and Critical, Том 1Mess. Exshaw, Walker, Beatty, White, Byrne, Cash, and M'Kenzie, 1783 |
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... respect of us , be no more ; and yet occur to us , from time to time , dreffed out in colours fo lively , as to enable us to ex- amine it , and judge of it , as if it were still an object of fenfe : -these are facts , whereof we every ...
... respect of us , be no more ; and yet occur to us , from time to time , dreffed out in colours fo lively , as to enable us to ex- amine it , and judge of it , as if it were still an object of fenfe : -these are facts , whereof we every ...
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... respect to its tendency . If you afk him a queftion , it is fome time before he can recollect himfelf fo far as to attend to you ; he hefitates , and you must repeat your words be- fore he understands them : and when he has with ...
... respect to its tendency . If you afk him a queftion , it is fome time before he can recollect himfelf fo far as to attend to you ; he hefitates , and you must repeat your words be- fore he understands them : and when he has with ...
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... respect is due , may be fuppofed to understand , and to relifh . And , how much foever we may be im- preffed with what we have been reading or medi- tating , and however defirous we may be to digeft E 4 and and remember it , we are not ...
... respect is due , may be fuppofed to understand , and to relifh . And , how much foever we may be im- preffed with what we have been reading or medi- tating , and however defirous we may be to digeft E 4 and and remember it , we are not ...
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... respects to what we experience in ourselves . But when a bee , whofe eyes from their extreme convexity cannot fee a foot before them , returns to her hive from a wide excurfion ; or when a dog , that has been carried in a basket thirty ...
... respects to what we experience in ourselves . But when a bee , whofe eyes from their extreme convexity cannot fee a foot before them , returns to her hive from a wide excurfion ; or when a dog , that has been carried in a basket thirty ...
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... respect wherein they can be compared , how far is the rational nature a- bove the irrational ! We have feen , that even in regard to Memory , which is common to both , the distance is inconceivably great . What then fhall we think of ...
... respect wherein they can be compared , how far is the rational nature a- bove the irrational ! We have feen , that even in regard to Memory , which is common to both , the distance is inconceivably great . What then fhall we think of ...
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adjective adverbs Æneid affirmation affociated alfo alſo antient aorift appear beauty becauſe cafe called caufe Cicero confequently confidered defire denotes difcourfe diftinct diftinguished dreams effential elegant English expreffion exprefs fable faid fame fatire fecond fecondly feem feen fenfe fentence fentiments feveral fhall fhort fhould fign fignify fimple firft firſt fleep fome fomething fometimes fpeak fpecies fpeech fpoken ftill ftyle fubject fublime fuch fuppofed fyllables Grammarians Greek himſelf human ideas imagination itſelf laft language Latin learned leaſt lefs meaning meaſure Memory mind moft moſt muft muſt nature neceffary noun obferved occafion paffage paffions paffive pafs paft participle paſt perfon philofophers pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poet poffible pofition prefent prepofitions preterite profe pronoun purpoſe racter reafon refpect rife ſpeak tafte tenfes thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thought tion tive tongue trochees underſtand uſe verb verfe Virgil whofe words writing
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