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... purpose of propagation; and next, that more general society, which we have with men and with other animals, and which we may in some sort be said to have even with the inanimate world. The passions belonging to the preservation of the ...
... purpose of propagation; and next, that more general society, which we have with men and with other animals, and which we may in some sort be said to have even with the inanimate world. The passions belonging to the preservation of the ...
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... purpose, as is evident from the infinite variety of causes, which give rise to madness: but this at most can only prove, that the passion of love is capable of producing very extraordinary effects, not that its extraordinary emotions ...
... purpose, as is evident from the infinite variety of causes, which give rise to madness: but this at most can only prove, that the passion of love is capable of producing very extraordinary effects, not that its extraordinary emotions ...
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... purposes for which they were designed. Good sense and experience acting together, find out what is fit to be done in every work of art. We are rational creatures, and in all our works we ought to regard their end and purpose; the ...
... purposes for which they were designed. Good sense and experience acting together, find out what is fit to be done in every work of art. We are rational creatures, and in all our works we ought to regard their end and purpose; the ...
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... purpose, but by association; so it would be absurd, on the other hand, to say that all things affect us by association only; since some things must have been originally and naturally agreeable or disagreeable, from which the others ...
... purpose, but by association; so it would be absurd, on the other hand, to say that all things affect us by association only; since some things must have been originally and naturally agreeable or disagreeable, from which the others ...
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... purpose. But the aggregate words operate, as I said of the compound-abstracts, not by presenting any image to the ... purposes of life; nor is it necessary that we should. SECTION V. EXAMPLES THAT WORDS MAY AFFECT WITHOUT RAISING IMAGES ...
... purpose. But the aggregate words operate, as I said of the compound-abstracts, not by presenting any image to the ... purposes of life; nor is it necessary that we should. SECTION V. EXAMPLES THAT WORDS MAY AFFECT WITHOUT RAISING IMAGES ...
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