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Page 31
... emotions and beautiful imagery ; but in his day writings that did not carry on their face a distinct moral purpose were supposed to be idle and useless . Spenser yielded to this and tried to expound a system of ethics in a poem ...
... emotions and beautiful imagery ; but in his day writings that did not carry on their face a distinct moral purpose were supposed to be idle and useless . Spenser yielded to this and tried to expound a system of ethics in a poem ...
Page 35
... emotions , for these are the motives to action . No appeal can be made to the will directly . People will not choose to act by simply being asked to do so . The proper motives to action must be aroused , through the presentation of ...
... emotions , for these are the motives to action . No appeal can be made to the will directly . People will not choose to act by simply being asked to do so . The proper motives to action must be aroused , through the presentation of ...
Page 36
... emotions for their own sake , and not to serve as motives to action . One may contemplate a waterfall or a landscape and find his reward in the contemplation . Hearing the song of a bird or viewing a gorgeous sunset , is justified by ...
... emotions for their own sake , and not to serve as motives to action . One may contemplate a waterfall or a landscape and find his reward in the contemplation . Hearing the song of a bird or viewing a gorgeous sunset , is justified by ...
Page 42
... emotions , it must be organized differently , and still differently to move the will . And each of these must be changed in a marked degree in adăpting from a lower to a higher phase of mental development . A still further modification ...
... emotions , it must be organized differently , and still differently to move the will . And each of these must be changed in a marked degree in adăpting from a lower to a higher phase of mental development . A still further modification ...
Page 86
... emotion , without regard to their logical relation . The precision , rigidity , and fullness of the preceding examples would here violate every law of discourse . If the writer desire to move the will , the means of securing unity ...
... emotion , without regard to their logical relation . The precision , rigidity , and fullness of the preceding examples would here violate every law of discourse . If the writer desire to move the will , the means of securing unity ...
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