Dissertations Moral and Critical, Volume 1Mess. Exshaw, Walker, Beatty, White, Byrne, Cash, and M'Kenzie, 1783 - Aesthetics |
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... necessary to us , and could not be made out by human reafon . For man , acquainted with futurity , would be both useless and mifera- ble . To him all curiofity and enterprife would be at an end , and all hope extinguifhed ; future evils ...
... necessary to us , and could not be made out by human reafon . For man , acquainted with futurity , would be both useless and mifera- ble . To him all curiofity and enterprife would be at an end , and all hope extinguifhed ; future evils ...
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... necessary in lan- guage , will appear hereafter . - As to the infinitive mood , I fhall fhow in another place , that it par- takes more of the nature of an abstract noun , than of a verb ; for it denotes no affirmation , and only ...
... necessary in lan- guage , will appear hereafter . - As to the infinitive mood , I fhall fhow in another place , that it par- takes more of the nature of an abstract noun , than of a verb ; for it denotes no affirmation , and only ...
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... necessary in every fentence , and fignifying affirmation ( or " affertion ) with time . " According to this idea , we may , by means of the verb alone , and without having recourfe to auxiliary words , affirm , or affert , not only what ...
... necessary in every fentence , and fignifying affirmation ( or " affertion ) with time . " According to this idea , we may , by means of the verb alone , and without having recourfe to auxiliary words , affirm , or affert , not only what ...
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... necessary . For , if we fay , " He " came from London in chariot with friend and " fervant , " there is a meaning ; which , though awkwardly expreffed , according to the idiom of our tongue , may however be gueffed at ; and which ...
... necessary . For , if we fay , " He " came from London in chariot with friend and " fervant , " there is a meaning ; which , though awkwardly expreffed , according to the idiom of our tongue , may however be gueffed at ; and which ...
Page 250
... necessary to make me comprehend the author's meaning . Confidering this as the chief part of my fub- ject , I dispatched the former parts as briefly as I could , that I might have the more time to employ upon it . The rife and progrefs ...
... necessary to make me comprehend the author's meaning . Confidering this as the chief part of my fub- ject , I dispatched the former parts as briefly as I could , that I might have the more time to employ upon it . The rife and progrefs ...
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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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Page 334 - Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 188 - The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'd with errors : Our understanding traces them in vain, Lost and bewilder'd in the fruitless search : Nor sees with how much art the windings run, Nor where the regular confusion ends.
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Page 270 - I was once myself in agonies of grief that are unutterable, and in so great a distraction of mind, that I thought myself even out of the possibility of receiving comfort. The occasion was as follows : When I was a youth, in a part of the army which was then quartered at Dover, I fell in love with an agreeable young woman, of a good family in those parts, and had the satisfaction of seeing my addresses kindly received, which occasioned the perplexity I am going to relate. We were in a calm evening...
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Page 354 - It is indifferent for judges and magistrates ; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant five times worse than a wife. For soldiers, I find the generals, commonly in their hortatives...
Page 213 - So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft' in those confin'd to single parts.
Page 271 - ... height upon such a range of rocks, as would have dashed her into ten thousand pieces had her body been made of adamant. It is much easier for my reader to imagine my state of mind upon such an occasion than for me to express it. I said to myself, It is not in the power of heaven to relieve me! when I awaked, equally transported and astonished, to see myself drawn out of an affliction which, the very moment before, appeared to me altogether inextricable.
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