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A Dissertation on the Principles of Human Eloquence: With Particular Regard ... - Page 10
by Thomas Leland - 1764 - 106 pages
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severak hands - 1764 - 590 pages
...not the ,chief or only end of language, but that there are other ends, as the jaifing fome pafiion, the exciting to, or deterring from an action, the...many cafes barely fubfervient, and fometimes entirely omitted."—It follows, that fuch modes of addrefs as anfwcr thele latter, and (according to this author)...
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The Works of George Berkeley, Volume 1

George Berkeley - 1820 - 514 pages
...only end of language, as is commonly supposed. There are other ends, as the raising of some passion, the exciting to or deterring from an action, the putting the mind in some particular disposition ; to which the former is in many cases barely subservient, and sometimes...
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The Works of George Berkeley, Volume 1

George Berkeley - 1820 - 506 pages
...only end of language, as is commonly supposed. There are other ends, as the raising of some passion, the exciting to or deterring from an action, the putting the mind in some particular disposition ; to which the former is in many cases barely subservient, and sometimes...
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Connected Essays and Tracts, being a series of inferences, deduced chiefly ...

Henry O'CONNOR (Barrister-at-Law) - 1837 - 376 pages
...only end of language, as is commonly supposed. There are other ends, as the raising of some passion, the exciting to, or deterring from an action, the putting the mind in some particular dispositions, &c. For instance, may we not be affected with the promise of a good...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind

Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 508 pages
...only end of language, as is commonly supposed. There are other ends, as the raising of some passion, the exciting to or deterring from an action, the putting the mind in some particular disposition, to which the former is in many cases barely subservient, and sometimes...
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The Works of George Berkeley: Philosophical works

George Berkeley - 1871 - 478 pages
...only end of language, as is commonly supposed. There are other ends, as the raising of some passion, the exciting to or deterring from an action, the putting the mind in some particular disposition—to which the former " is in many cases barely subservient, and sometimes...
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The pure philosophical works

George Berkeley - 1871 - 478 pages
...only end of language, as is commonly supposed. There are other ends, as the raising of some passion, the exciting to or deterring from an action, the putting the mind in some particular disposition — to which the former '28 is in many cases barely subservient, and...
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A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

George Berkeley - 1874 - 436 pages
...only end of language, as is commonly supposed. There are other ends, as the raising of some passion, the exciting to or deterring from an action, the putting the mind in some particular disposition — to which the former38 is in many cases barely subservient, and sometimes...
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The Principles of Human Knowledge, Being Berkeley's Celebrated Treatise on ...

George Berkeley - 1878 - 318 pages
...only end of language, as is commonly supposed. There are other ends, as the raising of some passion, the exciting to, or deterring from an action, the putting the mind in some particular disposition ; to which the former is, in many cases, barely subservient, and sometimes...
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Errand Into the Wilderness

Perry Miller - 2009 - 260 pages
...stimuli, could operate not by actually communicating anything but by "the raising of some passion, the exciting to or deterring from an action, the putting the mind in some particular disposition." He entreated his readers to answer honestly if they had not, upon...
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