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... fatisfaction of the publick , what with his usual sagacity he had fully an- ticipated from his own personal observation , to Page 369 of the prefent edition . † Pages 417 , 418 of the present edition . J his own private conviction . At ...
... fatisfaction of the publick , what with his usual sagacity he had fully an- ticipated from his own personal observation , to Page 369 of the prefent edition . † Pages 417 , 418 of the present edition . J his own private conviction . At ...
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... fatisfaction of a com- mon auditory , than to establish a doubtful truth by folid and conclusive arguments . When men find that fomething can be faid in favour of what , on the very propofal , they have thought utterly indefensible ...
... fatisfaction of a com- mon auditory , than to establish a doubtful truth by folid and conclusive arguments . When men find that fomething can be faid in favour of what , on the very propofal , they have thought utterly indefensible ...
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... fatisfaction . The numbers I particularized are about thirty - fix millions . Besides those killed in battles I have faid fomething , not half what the matter would have justified , but fomething I have faid , concerning the ...
... fatisfaction . The numbers I particularized are about thirty - fix millions . Besides those killed in battles I have faid fomething , not half what the matter would have justified , but fomething I have faid , concerning the ...
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... fatisfaction in tracing resemblances than in searching for diffe . rences : because by making resemblances we pro- duce new images ; we unite , we create , we enlarge our stock ; but in making distinctions we offer no food at all to the ...
... fatisfaction in tracing resemblances than in searching for diffe . rences : because by making resemblances we pro- duce new images ; we unite , we create , we enlarge our stock ; but in making distinctions we offer no food at all to the ...
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... fatisfaction in seeing an agreeable figure ; the sympathy proceeding from a striking and af- fecting incident . So far as taste is natural , it is nearly common to all . In poetry , and other pieces of imagination , the fame parity may ...
... fatisfaction in seeing an agreeable figure ; the sympathy proceeding from a striking and af- fecting incident . So far as taste is natural , it is nearly common to all . In poetry , and other pieces of imagination , the fame parity may ...
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