THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE1803 |
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... of Lord BOLING- BROKE ; and fuch are the reasonings which this noble writer and several others have been pleased to dignify with the name of philofophy . If thefe S are : are delivered in a specious manner , and in 4 PREFACE .
... of Lord BOLING- BROKE ; and fuch are the reasonings which this noble writer and several others have been pleased to dignify with the name of philofophy . If thefe S are : are delivered in a specious manner , and in 4 PREFACE .
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... pleased me very much , though I do not know from whence he has taken it : " Interdum fucata " falfitas , ( fays he ) in multis est probabilior , et fæpe " rationibus vincit nudam veritatem . " In such cafes , the writer has a certain ...
... pleased me very much , though I do not know from whence he has taken it : " Interdum fucata " falfitas , ( fays he ) in multis est probabilior , et fæpe " rationibus vincit nudam veritatem . " In such cafes , the writer has a certain ...
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... pleased or difpleased with the images , from the fame prin- ciple on which the sense is pleased or difpleased with the realities ; and consequently there must be just as close an agreement in the imaginations as in the fenfes of men . A ...
... pleased or difpleased with the images , from the fame prin- ciple on which the sense is pleased or difpleased with the realities ; and consequently there must be just as close an agreement in the imaginations as in the fenfes of men . A ...
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... pleased . The mind of man has naturally a far greater alacrity and 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 ...
... pleased . The mind of man has naturally a far greater alacrity and 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 ...
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... pleased , because he sees fomething like an human figure ; and , entirely taken up with this likeness , he does not at all attend to its defects . No person , I be- lieve , at the first time of feeing a piece of imita . tion ever did ...
... pleased , because he sees fomething like an human figure ; and , entirely taken up with this likeness , he does not at all attend to its defects . No person , I be- lieve , at the first time of feeing a piece of imita . tion ever did ...
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