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... Images 173 VI . Poetry not strictly an imitative Art 177 VII . How Words influence the Passions 178 · 182 SHORT ACCOUNT of a LATE SHORT ADMINISTRATION OBSERVATIONS On a late PubliCATION , INTITULED THE PRESENT STATE OF THE NATION ...
... Images 173 VI . Poetry not strictly an imitative Art 177 VII . How Words influence the Passions 178 · 182 SHORT ACCOUNT of a LATE SHORT ADMINISTRATION OBSERVATIONS On a late PubliCATION , INTITULED THE PRESENT STATE OF THE NATION ...
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... image of a sort of complex Nero ? And does it not strike you with the greater horror , when you observe , not one man only , but a whole city , grown drunk with pride and power , running with a rage of folly into the same mean and ...
... image of a sort of complex Nero ? And does it not strike you with the greater horror , when you observe , not one man only , but a whole city , grown drunk with pride and power , running with a rage of folly into the same mean and ...
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... image or description to be found in poets and ora- tors . And though we should never be able to reconcile the effect of such images to our principles , this can never over- turn the theory itself , whilst it is founded on certain and in ...
... image or description to be found in poets and ora- tors . And though we should never be able to reconcile the effect of such images to our principles , this can never over- turn the theory itself , whilst it is founded on certain and in ...
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... images of things , this sceptical proceeding will make every sort of reasoning on every subject vain and frivolous , even that sceptical reasoning itself which had persuaded us to enter- tain a doubt concerning the agreement of our ...
... images of things , this sceptical proceeding will make every sort of reasoning on every subject vain and frivolous , even that sceptical reasoning itself which had persuaded us to enter- tain a doubt concerning the agreement of our ...
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... images of things in the order and manner in which they were received by the senses , or in combining those images in a new manner , and according to a different order . This power is called imagination ; and to this belongs whatever is ...
... images of things in the order and manner in which they were received by the senses , or in combining those images in a new manner , and according to a different order . This power is called imagination ; and to this belongs whatever is ...
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