Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Tom 1Bell & Bradfute, 1813 - 446 |
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... Pleasures of Taste- Sublimity in objects ............. IV . The Sublime in Writing . Page . 1 17 41 65 V. Beauty , and other Pleasures of Taste ........ 91 VI . Rise and Progress of Language ..........................................
... Pleasures of Taste- Sublimity in objects ............. IV . The Sublime in Writing . Page . 1 17 41 65 V. Beauty , and other Pleasures of Taste ........ 91 VI . Rise and Progress of Language ..........................................
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... pleasure be the principal aim in view , we are prompted , by the strongest motives , to study how we may communicate our thoughts to one another with most advantage . Accordingly , we find , that in almost every nation , as soon as ...
... pleasure be the principal aim in view , we are prompted , by the strongest motives , to study how we may communicate our thoughts to one another with most advantage . Accordingly , we find , that in almost every nation , as soon as ...
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... pleasure . Life must always languish in the hands of the idle . It will frequently languish even in the hands of the ... pleasures of taste may be applied , by interposing them in a middle station between the pleasures of sense and those ...
... pleasure . Life must always languish in the hands of the idle . It will frequently languish even in the hands of the ... pleasures of taste may be applied , by interposing them in a middle station between the pleasures of sense and those ...
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... pleasure from the beauties of nature and of " art . " The first question that occurs concerning it is , whether it is to be considered as an internal sense , or as an exertion of reason ? Reason is a very general term ; but if we ...
... pleasure from the beauties of nature and of " art . " The first question that occurs concerning it is , whether it is to be considered as an internal sense , or as an exertion of reason ? Reason is a very general term ; but if we ...
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... pleasures of taste , there is a more re- markable inequality among men , than is usually found in point of common sense , reason , and judg- ment . The constitution of our nature in this , as in all other respects , discovers admirable ...
... pleasures of taste , there is a more re- markable inequality among men , than is usually found in point of common sense , reason , and judg- ment . The constitution of our nature in this , as in all other respects , discovers admirable ...
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