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Page 51
... qualities which I have ranged under the head of the Sublime be all found consistent with each other , and all different from those which I place under the head of Beauty ; and if those which compose the class of the Beautiful have the ...
... qualities which I have ranged under the head of the Sublime be all found consistent with each other , and all different from those which I place under the head of Beauty ; and if those which compose the class of the Beautiful have the ...
Page 55
... qualities and affections of bodies . If we suffer ourselves to imagine , that their senses present to different men different images of things , this sceptical proceeding will make every sort of reasoning on every subject vain and ...
... qualities and affections of bodies . If we suffer ourselves to imagine , that their senses present to different men different images of things , this sceptical proceeding will make every sort of reasoning on every subject vain and ...
Page 57
... qualities which they possess for nutritive or medicinal purposes , they often form the palate by degrees , and by force of these associations . Thus opium is pleasing to Turks , on account of the agreeable delirium it produces . Tobacco ...
... qualities which they possess for nutritive or medicinal purposes , they often form the palate by degrees , and by force of these associations . Thus opium is pleasing to Turks , on account of the agreeable delirium it produces . Tobacco ...
Page 63
... qualities of things , hardly any more than the imagination seems con- cerned ; little more also than the imagination seems con- cerned when the passions are represented , because by the force of natural sympathy they are felt in all men ...
... qualities of things , hardly any more than the imagination seems con- cerned ; little more also than the imagination seems con- cerned when the passions are represented , because by the force of natural sympathy they are felt in all men ...
Page 64
... qualities that compose what we commonly call a taste , vary exceedingly in various people . From a defect in the former of these qualities arises a want of taste ; a weakness in the latter constitutes a wrong or a bad one . There are ...
... qualities that compose what we commonly call a taste , vary exceedingly in various people . From a defect in the former of these qualities arises a want of taste ; a weakness in the latter constitutes a wrong or a bad one . There are ...
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