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... imagination , subsist and produce their effect , even after the understanding has been satisfied of their unsubstantial nature . There is a sort of gloss upon ingenious falsehoods , that dazzles the im- agination , but which neither ...
... imagination , subsist and produce their effect , even after the understanding has been satisfied of their unsubstantial nature . There is a sort of gloss upon ingenious falsehoods , that dazzles the im- agination , but which neither ...
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... imaginations promise . In such a discussion , far am I from proposing in the least to reflect on our most wise form of government ; no more than I would , in the freer parts of my philosophical writings , mean to object to the piety ...
... imaginations promise . In such a discussion , far am I from proposing in the least to reflect on our most wise form of government ; no more than I would , in the freer parts of my philosophical writings , mean to object to the piety ...
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... imagination with the 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 ...
... imagination with the 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 ...
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... imaginations , for the ordering of mankind . I discover the mistakes in those plans , from the real known consequences which have resulted from them . They have enlisted reason to fight against itself , and employ its whole force to ...
... imaginations , for the ordering of mankind . I discover the mistakes in those plans , from the real known consequences which have resulted from them . They have enlisted reason to fight against itself , and employ its whole force to ...
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... imagination , whilst we investigate the springs , and trace the courses of our passions , we may not only communicate to the taste a sort of philo sophical solidity , but we may reflect back on the severer sciences some of the graces ...
... imagination , whilst we investigate the springs , and trace the courses of our passions , we may not only communicate to the taste a sort of philo sophical solidity , but we may reflect back on the severer sciences some of the graces ...
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