Essays on Various Subjects, 2Johnson, 1809 |
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... kind of magic power fixes his steady gaze , and the mag- nificence so interests him , as even to render him inattentive to his own safety , of which the elder Pliny was a memorable example . But if horrour be associated with meanness ...
... kind of magic power fixes his steady gaze , and the mag- nificence so interests him , as even to render him inattentive to his own safety , of which the elder Pliny was a memorable example . But if horrour be associated with meanness ...
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... kind , is derived from the phænomena which they exhibit ; that is , the appearances under which they present themselves to our ob- servation , and the effects which they pro- duce in their actions upon us , or upon each other . Of the ...
... kind , is derived from the phænomena which they exhibit ; that is , the appearances under which they present themselves to our ob- servation , and the effects which they pro- duce in their actions upon us , or upon each other . Of the ...
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... kind . It would be the abandonment of all human reasoning , in every similar instance , to infer a different conclusion , without one decent authority for deviating from the established rule . It may still be contended by the advocates ...
... kind . It would be the abandonment of all human reasoning , in every similar instance , to infer a different conclusion , without one decent authority for deviating from the established rule . It may still be contended by the advocates ...
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... kind of inspiration , elevating those , whom they favour , and depressing and terrifying those , whom they hate and persecute . This to à poet may , perhaps , be tolerated , though it is a miserable exhibition of the popular divi ...
... kind of inspiration , elevating those , whom they favour , and depressing and terrifying those , whom they hate and persecute . This to à poet may , perhaps , be tolerated , though it is a miserable exhibition of the popular divi ...
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... kind , and from the passion for the grand , without any regard to the useful or the moral . Both of these motives may be associated with the useful and the moral , and they may and do act as independent principles of human na- ture ...
... kind , and from the passion for the grand , without any regard to the useful or the moral . Both of these motives may be associated with the useful and the moral , and they may and do act as independent principles of human na- ture ...
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