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... dangerous sometimes produce a Passion like Terror 149 IX . Why visual Objects of great Dimensions are sublime ib . x . Unity , why requisite to Vastness 150 XI . The artificial Infinite 151 XII . The Vibrations must be similar XIII ...
... dangerous sometimes produce a Passion like Terror 149 IX . Why visual Objects of great Dimensions are sublime ib . x . Unity , why requisite to Vastness 150 XI . The artificial Infinite 151 XII . The Vibrations must be similar XIII ...
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... danger of letting the imagina- tion loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack everything the most excellent and venerable ; that it would not be difficult to criticise the creation itself ; and that if we were to examine the ...
... danger of letting the imagina- tion loose upon some subjects , may very plausibly attack everything the most excellent and venerable ; that it would not be difficult to criticise the creation itself ; and that if we were to examine the ...
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... dangerous ; that ill conclusions can only flow from false pro- positions ; and that , to know whether any proposition be true or false , it is a preposterous method to examine it by its apparent consequences . These were the reasons ...
... dangerous ; that ill conclusions can only flow from false pro- positions ; and that , to know whether any proposition be true or false , it is a preposterous method to examine it by its apparent consequences . These were the reasons ...
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... dangerous consequences . Absurd and blasphemous notion ! as if all happiness was not connected with the practice of virtue , which necessarily de- pends upon the knowledge of truth ; that is , upon the know- ledge of those unalterable ...
... dangerous consequences . Absurd and blasphemous notion ! as if all happiness was not connected with the practice of virtue , which necessarily de- pends upon the knowledge of truth ; that is , upon the know- ledge of those unalterable ...
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... danger ; the mutual return of kindness and civility , would af ford a very ample and very pleasing subject for history . But , alas ! all the history of all times , concerning all nations , does not afford matter enough to fill ten ...
... danger ; the mutual return of kindness and civility , would af ford a very ample and very pleasing subject for history . But , alas ! all the history of all times , concerning all nations , does not afford matter enough to fill ten ...
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