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... sense, of the secondary pleasures of the imagination, and of the conclusions of the reasoning faculty, concerning ... senses are the great originals of all our ideas, and consequently of all our pleasures, if they are not uncertain and ...
... sense, of the secondary pleasures of the imagination, and of the conclusions of the reasoning faculty, concerning ... senses are the great originals of all our ideas, and consequently of all our pleasures, if they are not uncertain and ...
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... sense of pleasure I have not called pain, because it turns upon actual pleasure, and because it is, both in its cause and in most of its effects, of a nature altogether different. Next to the general passion we have for society, to a ...
... sense of pleasure I have not called pain, because it turns upon actual pleasure, and because it is, both in its cause and in most of its effects, of a nature altogether different. Next to the general passion we have for society, to a ...
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... sense; when we push our discoveries yet downward, and consider those creatures so many degrees yet smaller, and the still diminishing scale of existence, in tracing which the imagination is lost as well as the sense; we become amazed ...
... sense; when we push our discoveries yet downward, and consider those creatures so many degrees yet smaller, and the still diminishing scale of existence, in tracing which the imagination is lost as well as the sense; we become amazed ...
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... sense can produce it. I need not give here any fresh instances, as those given in the former sections abundantly ... senses, my first observation (Sect. 7) will be found very nearly true; that the sublime is an idea belonging to self ...
... sense can produce it. I need not give here any fresh instances, as those given in the former sections abundantly ... senses, my first observation (Sect. 7) will be found very nearly true; that the sublime is an idea belonging to self ...
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... sense, to this happy standard, and confirm the voice of our passions by the determination of our reason. But since we have not this help, let us see whether proportion can in any sense be considered as the cause of beauty, as hath been ...
... sense, to this happy standard, and confirm the voice of our passions by the determination of our reason. But since we have not this help, let us see whether proportion can in any sense be considered as the cause of beauty, as hath been ...
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