Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1I. Thomas and E.T. Andrews, 1802 |
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... ftill retained . The Author gives them to the world , neither as a Work wholly original , nor as a Compilation from the Writings of others . On every fub- ject contained in them , he has thought for himself . He confulted his own ideas ...
... ftill retained . The Author gives them to the world , neither as a Work wholly original , nor as a Compilation from the Writings of others . On every fub- ject contained in them , he has thought for himself . He confulted his own ideas ...
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... ftill more requifite to attain the power of diftinguishing falfe ornament from true , in order to prevent our being carried away by that torrent of falfe and frivolous taste , which never fails , when it is prevalent , to fweep along ...
... ftill more requifite to attain the power of diftinguishing falfe ornament from true , in order to prevent our being carried away by that torrent of falfe and frivolous taste , which never fails , when it is prevalent , to fweep along ...
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... ftill more . The illuftration of this leads to my next remark on this fubject , that Tafte is a most improveable faculty , if there be any fuch in human nature ; a remark which gives great encouragement to fuch a course of study as we ...
... ftill more . The illuftration of this leads to my next remark on this fubject , that Tafte is a most improveable faculty , if there be any fuch in human nature ; a remark which gives great encouragement to fuch a course of study as we ...
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... ftill a predomi- nancy of one or other quality in the mixture is often vifible . The power of Delicacy is chiefly feen in difcerning the true merit of a work ; the power of Correctness , in rejecting false pretenfions to merit ...
... ftill a predomi- nancy of one or other quality in the mixture is often vifible . The power of Delicacy is chiefly feen in difcerning the true merit of a work ; the power of Correctness , in rejecting false pretenfions to merit ...
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... ftill more fo . The exceffive Grandeur of the firmament arifes from its height , joined to its boundless extent ; and that of the VOL . I. D ocean , * See a Philofophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful ...
... ftill more fo . The exceffive Grandeur of the firmament arifes from its height , joined to its boundless extent ; and that of the VOL . I. D ocean , * See a Philofophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful ...
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