The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Niteet 3–4 |
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... Nature - Errors of the French Writers ....... ..... 109. Fashionable Visiting - Notice from the Upholders ...... 110. Court of Judicature of the Dead in Reason ........ 111. On the Prevalence of Irreligious Principles ADDISON STEELE ...
... Nature - Errors of the French Writers ....... ..... 109. Fashionable Visiting - Notice from the Upholders ...... 110. Court of Judicature of the Dead in Reason ........ 111. On the Prevalence of Irreligious Principles ADDISON STEELE ...
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... nature can rejoice in its disgrace , and take pleasure in seeing its own figure turned to ridicule , and distorted into forms that raise horror and aversion ? There is something dis- ingenuous and immoral in the being able to bear such ...
... nature can rejoice in its disgrace , and take pleasure in seeing its own figure turned to ridicule , and distorted into forms that raise horror and aversion ? There is something dis- ingenuous and immoral in the being able to bear such ...
Sivu 15
... nature , and consider it under its worst appearances . They give mean interpretations and base motives to the wor- thiest actions : they resolve virtue and vice into constitution . In short , they endeavour to make no distinction ...
... nature , and consider it under its worst appearances . They give mean interpretations and base motives to the wor- thiest actions : they resolve virtue and vice into constitution . In short , they endeavour to make no distinction ...
Sivu 16
... nature : but certainly , if it ever exerts itself in affairs of opinion and speculation , it ought to do it on such shallow and despicable pretenders to knowledge , who endeavour to give man dark and uncomfortable prospects of his being ...
... nature : but certainly , if it ever exerts itself in affairs of opinion and speculation , it ought to do it on such shallow and despicable pretenders to knowledge , who endeavour to give man dark and uncomfortable prospects of his being ...
Sivu 17
... nature . For seeing this sensible world is in dignity inferior to the soul of man , poesy seems to endow human nature with that which history denies ; and to give satisfaction to the mind , with at least the shadow of things , where the ...
... nature . For seeing this sensible world is in dignity inferior to the soul of man , poesy seems to endow human nature with that which history denies ; and to give satisfaction to the mind , with at least the shadow of things , where the ...
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