A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties and His Education, Nide 1Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1810 - 415 sivua |
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... present to each individual , and it is the dif- ferent impressions of these objects which produce in the same indi- * The poet formerly owed but little to the weakness of the sculptor , who dreaded the wrath and hatred of the gods of ...
... present to each individual , and it is the dif- ferent impressions of these objects which produce in the same indi- * The poet formerly owed but little to the weakness of the sculptor , who dreaded the wrath and hatred of the gods of ...
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... present parliaments laugh at the former ; future parliaments will laugh at the present . 74. ( p . 350. ) See the apology by Naudé , for great men accused of magic . The author there thinks himself obliged to prove that Homer , Virgil ...
... present parliaments laugh at the former ; future parliaments will laugh at the present . 74. ( p . 350. ) See the apology by Naudé , for great men accused of magic . The author there thinks himself obliged to prove that Homer , Virgil ...
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... farther extended , and more accurately examined , in the present work than in the former ; my reflection having sug- gested a number of new ideas , while I was em- ployed A 2 ployed in the composition . Such thoughts as are less.
... farther extended , and more accurately examined , in the present work than in the former ; my reflection having sug- gested a number of new ideas , while I was em- ployed A 2 ployed in the composition . Such thoughts as are less.
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... present hour , must adopt implicitly the current principles of the time , without ever attempting to examine or question their authority ; and from this source arises the want of originality , so general among literary productions ...
... present hour , must adopt implicitly the current principles of the time , without ever attempting to examine or question their authority ; and from this source arises the want of originality , so general among literary productions ...
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... present . Clouds of thicker darkness are perpetually over- spreading the South , produced by the mists of su- perstition and of Asiatic despotism . The horizon of the North becomes every day more bright and effulgent . A Catherine II ...
... present . Clouds of thicker darkness are perpetually over- spreading the South , produced by the mists of su- perstition and of Asiatic despotism . The horizon of the North becomes every day more bright and effulgent . A Catherine II ...
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Sivu 92 - The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy, have consequences very important, and of a long duration. It is with these first impressions, as with a river, whose waters we can easily turn, by different canals, in quite opposite courses, so that from the insensible direction the stream receives at its source, it takes different directions, and at last arrives at places far distant from each other; and with the same facility we may, I think, turn the minds of children to what...
Sivu 148 - Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.
Sivu 16 - What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, Prove false again? Two hundred more.
Sivu 93 - I conclude, that there are great re*' sources to be found in children, which are suffered to vanish " with their years It is evident therefore that it is not of nature, but of our negligence we ought to complain.
Sivu 26 - The discreet Corneille had remained a lawyer. Thus it is that the devotion of a mother, the death of Cromwell, deer-stealing, the exclamation of an old man, and the beauty of a woman, have given five illustrious characters to Europe.