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... Darkness is terrible XIV . Locke's Opinion concerning Darkness considered xv . Darkness terrible in its own nature XVII . The Effects of Blackness · 155 156 157 · 158 SECT . XVIII . The Effects of Blackness moderated 1 CONTENTS . vii.
... Darkness is terrible XIV . Locke's Opinion concerning Darkness considered xv . Darkness terrible in its own nature XVII . The Effects of Blackness · 155 156 157 · 158 SECT . XVIII . The Effects of Blackness moderated 1 CONTENTS . vii.
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... darkness to the rest of mankind , ) the contending parties felt themselves more effectually ruined by the delay than they could have been by the injustice of any decision . Our inheritances are become a prize for disputation ; and ...
... darkness to the rest of mankind , ) the contending parties felt themselves more effectually ruined by the delay than they could have been by the injustice of any decision . Our inheritances are become a prize for disputation ; and ...
Page 56
... darkness . Sum- mer , when the earth is clad in green , when the heavens are serene and bright , is more agreeable than winter , when every- thing makes a different appearance . I never remember that anything beautiful , whether a man ...
... darkness . Sum- mer , when the earth is clad in green , when the heavens are serene and bright , is more agreeable than winter , when every- thing makes a different appearance . I never remember that anything beautiful , whether a man ...
Page 62
... darkness and light , the shades of colours , all these are very easily dis- tinguished when the difference is any way considerable , but not when it is minute , for want of some common measures , which perhaps may never come to be ...
... darkness and light , the shades of colours , all these are very easily dis- tinguished when the difference is any way considerable , but not when it is minute , for want of some common measures , which perhaps may never come to be ...
Page 67
... darkness from their minds . But they who have cultivated that species of knowledge which makes the object of taste , by degrees , and habitually , attain not only a soundness , but a readiness of judgment , as men do by the same methods ...
... darkness from their minds . But they who have cultivated that species of knowledge which makes the object of taste , by degrees , and habitually , attain not only a soundness , but a readiness of judgment , as men do by the same methods ...
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