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... entirely conformed to the plan there delineated . That first outline he shewed soon after to several of his acquaintance , some of whom are still living . In the year 1757 , it was read to a private lite- rary society , of which the ...
... entirely conformed to the plan there delineated . That first outline he shewed soon after to several of his acquaintance , some of whom are still living . In the year 1757 , it was read to a private lite- rary society , of which the ...
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... entirely sensible , that an impro- priety or other negligence in style will escape the notice of the writer , which hardly escapes that of any body else . Next to the purpose of illustrating the principles and canons which he here ...
... entirely sensible , that an impro- priety or other negligence in style will escape the notice of the writer , which hardly escapes that of any body else . Next to the purpose of illustrating the principles and canons which he here ...
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... entirely founded on experiment and observation , and are not derived , like pure mathematics , from abstract and universal axioms . But even in these , when we rise from the individual to the species , from the species to the genus ...
... entirely founded on experiment and observation , and are not derived , like pure mathematics , from abstract and universal axioms . But even in these , when we rise from the individual to the species , from the species to the genus ...
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... art of war , though properly liberal arts , fall entirely under the denomination of the useful ; whereas painting and sculpture , though requiring a good deal of b manual labour , and in that respect more nearly INTRODUCTION . xiii.
... art of war , though properly liberal arts , fall entirely under the denomination of the useful ; whereas painting and sculpture , though requiring a good deal of b manual labour , and in that respect more nearly INTRODUCTION . xiii.
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... entirely similar in the fine arts . These , though later in their appearing , are more rapid in their advancement . There may , indeed , be in these a degree of perfection beyond what we have experienced ; but we have some conception of ...
... entirely similar in the fine arts . These , though later in their appearing , are more rapid in their advancement . There may , indeed , be in these a degree of perfection beyond what we have experienced ; but we have some conception of ...
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Page 362 - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib : but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
Page 386 - Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer...
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Page 333 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 257 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 420 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
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Page 327 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th...
Page 357 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock : and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell not : for it was founded upon a rock.
Page 298 - Some say, he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth, twice ten degrees and more, From the sun's axle ; they with labour push'd Oblique the centric globe.