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... cause of some particular act. If a man kills me with a sword, it is a necessary condition to this that we should have been both of us alive before the fact; and yet it would be absurd to say being both living creatures was the cause of ...
... cause of some particular act. If a man kills me with a sword, it is a necessary condition to this that we should have been both of us alive before the fact; and yet it would be absurd to say being both living creatures was the cause of ...
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... cause whatsoever. But then it is a sophism to argue from thence that this immunity is the cause of my delight either on these or on any occasions. No one can distinguish such a cause of satisfaction in his own mind, I believe; nay, when ...
... cause whatsoever. But then it is a sophism to argue from thence that this immunity is the cause of my delight either on these or on any occasions. No one can distinguish such a cause of satisfaction in his own mind, I believe; nay, when ...
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... cause has ceased to operate.[18] After whirling about, when we sit down, the objects about us still seem to whirl. After a long succession of noises, as the fall of waters, or the beating of forge-hammers, the hammers beat and the ...
... cause has ceased to operate.[18] After whirling about, when we sit down, the objects about us still seem to whirl. After a long succession of noises, as the fall of waters, or the beating of forge-hammers, the hammers beat and the ...
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... cause of grandeur, as it excludes the idea of art and contrivance; for dexterity produces another sort of effect, which is different enough from this. SECTION XIII. MAGNIFICENCE. Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great ...
... cause of grandeur, as it excludes the idea of art and contrivance; for dexterity produces another sort of effect, which is different enough from this. SECTION XIII. MAGNIFICENCE. Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great ...
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... cause love, or some passion similar to it. I confine this definition to the merely sensible qualities of things, for ... causes of sympathy which attach us to any persons or things from secondary considerations, and not from the direct ...
... cause love, or some passion similar to it. I confine this definition to the merely sensible qualities of things, for ... causes of sympathy which attach us to any persons or things from secondary considerations, and not from the direct ...
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