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" Entertain hopes, mirth rather than joy, variety of delights, rather than surfeit of them ; wonder and admiration, and therefore novelties ; studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature. "
An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetorick - Page 109
by Hugh Blair - 1822 - 304 pages
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An Abridgement of Lectures on Rhetoric

Hugh Blair - 1802 - 328 pages
...fplendid and illujlnoiu objeSi, as hiftories, fables, and contemplations of nature. In the latter of thefe two periods a member is out of its place. Where he particularly diffuades him from. knotty andfubtile difquifitioni ought to precede has not thought it improper to...
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Select British Classics, Volume 16

1803 - 376 pages
...where he particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtile disquisitions, and advises him to pursue studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious...as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature. I have in this paper, by way of introduction, settled the notions of those pleasures of the imaginationwhich...
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1804 - 412 pages
...where he particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtle disquisitions, and advises him to pursue studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious...as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature. I have in this paper, by way of introduction, settled the notion of those pleasures of the imagination...
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The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Volume 2

Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...where he particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtle disquisitions, and advises him to pursue studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious...as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature. I have in this paper, by way of introduction, set' tied the notion of those pleasures of the imagination,...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 pages
...where he particularly dissuades him from knotty " and subtile disquisitions, and advises him to pursue studies " that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious...contemplations of nature." In the latter of these two sentences, a member of the period is altogether out of its place ; which gives the whole sentence a...
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The British Essayists;: Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 344 pages
...where he particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtle disquisitions, and advises him to pursue studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplation* of -nature. VOL. XII. N I hare in this paper, by way of introduction, settled the notion...
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The Spectator, Volume 7

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 362 pages
...where he particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtle disquisitions, and advises him to pursue studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious...as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature. I have in this paper, by way of introduction, settled the notion of those pleasures of the imaf ination...
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Auntient lere, a selection of aphoristical and preceptive passages from the ...

Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...; variety of delights rather than surfeit of them ; wonder and admiration, and therefore novelties; studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious...as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature. If you fly physic Hi health altogether, it will be too strong for your body .when you shall need it;...
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Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political

Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 pages
...joy, variety of delights, rather than surfeit of them; wonder and admiration, and therefore novelties; studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious...as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature. If you fly physic in health altogether, it will be too strange for your body when you shall need it;...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 1

Hugh Blair - 1815 - 582 pages
...where he particularly dissuades him from knotty and subtile disquisitions, and advises hitn to pursue studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious...histories, fables, and contemplations of nature.' In the latler of these two sentences, a member of the period Ls altogether out of its place ; which gives...
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