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... give pleasure to taste ; it is more difficult to define all those which have ... example , we all learn by ex perience , that some figures of bodies appear ... give us of the benevolence of our Creator . By these powers he hath widely ...
... give pleasure to taste ; it is more difficult to define all those which have ... example , we all learn by ex perience , that some figures of bodies appear ... give us of the benevolence of our Creator . By these powers he hath widely ...
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Hugh Blair. brosial curls , and gives the nod ; " which is trifling and insignificant : whereas in the original the ... examples of it . Take , for instance , the following noted description of Satan , after his fall , appearing at the ...
Hugh Blair. brosial curls , and gives the nod ; " which is trifling and insignificant : whereas in the original the ... examples of it . Take , for instance , the following noted description of Satan , after his fall , appearing at the ...
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... example , may appear more beauti- ful , from being connected in our ideas with rural scenes and prospects ; white ... one , which we perceive to be formed according to some certain rule , and not left arbitrary or loose in the construction of ...
... example , may appear more beauti- ful , from being connected in our ideas with rural scenes and prospects ; white ... one , which we perceive to be formed according to some certain rule , and not left arbitrary or loose in the construction of ...
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... one is of the high and the great vir- tues , which require extraordinary ... one of the most proper examples of it . Fenelon , the author of Telemachus , is ... example , has been mentioned by Addi- son , and by every writer on this ...
... one is of the high and the great vir- tues , which require extraordinary ... one of the most proper examples of it . Fenelon , the author of Telemachus , is ... example , has been mentioned by Addi- son , and by every writer on this ...
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... Give some examples of hieroglyphics ? How did the Peruvians write ? How do the Chinese ? What example of this kind in English ? How was this imperfection remedied ? Who brought letters into Greece ? What languages are mentioned as ...
... Give some examples of hieroglyphics ? How did the Peruvians write ? How do the Chinese ? What example of this kind in English ? How was this imperfection remedied ? Who brought letters into Greece ? What languages are mentioned as ...
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Page 111 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision...
Page 88 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 74 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct you to a hill-side, where I will point you out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Page 25 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, And shall perform all my pleasure ; Even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built ; And to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Page 151 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Page 90 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature, from her seat Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 25 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Page 110 - Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments. The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension, shape, and all other ideas that enter at the eye, except colours ; but at the same time it is very much straitened and confined in its operations to the number, bulk,...
Page 186 - O SING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Page 115 - A man should endeavour, therefore, to make the sphere of his innocent pleasures as wide as possible, that he may retire into them with safety, and find in them such a satisfaction as a wise man would not blush to take.