The Works of Sir William Jones, Volume 2Garland Pub., 1984 - 188 pages |
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... idea of celestial beauty muft overwhelm it in extatick delight ; that , for want of apt words to express the divine perfections and the ardour of devotion , we must borrow fuch expreffions as approach the nearest to our ideas , and ...
... idea of celestial beauty muft overwhelm it in extatick delight ; that , for want of apt words to express the divine perfections and the ardour of devotion , we must borrow fuch expreffions as approach the nearest to our ideas , and ...
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... ideas , which they have multiplied by the most ingenious combinations and the livelieft metaphors ; but , as the ... ideas expreffed by them , and the written fymbols for those ideas , are very complex . This has arisen , I fuppofe ...
... ideas , which they have multiplied by the most ingenious combinations and the livelieft metaphors ; but , as the ... ideas expreffed by them , and the written fymbols for those ideas , are very complex . This has arisen , I fuppofe ...
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... idea with ❝ him , whose immensity overwhelms them with " astonishment : confidering themselves as an ema- " nation from that infinite Being , the fource and " cause of all things , they would then disdain to " be misled by a gloomy and ...
... idea with ❝ him , whose immensity overwhelms them with " astonishment : confidering themselves as an ema- " nation from that infinite Being , the fource and " cause of all things , they would then disdain to " be misled by a gloomy and ...
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