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It is this that makes the several kinds of wit pleasant , which confifts , as I have formerly shewn , in the affinity of ideas ' : And we may add , it is this also that raises the little fatisfaction we sometimes find in the different ...
It is this that makes the several kinds of wit pleasant , which confifts , as I have formerly shewn , in the affinity of ideas ' : And we may add , it is this also that raises the little fatisfaction we sometimes find in the different ...
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As we look on any object , our idea of it is , perhaps , made up of two or three simple ideas ; but when the poet represents it , he may either give us a more complex idea of it , or only raise in us such ideas as are most apt to affect ...
As we look on any object , our idea of it is , perhaps , made up of two or three simple ideas ; but when the poet represents it , he may either give us a more complex idea of it , or only raise in us such ideas as are most apt to affect ...
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The set of ideas which we received from such a profpect or garden , having entered the mind at the fame time , have a set of traces belonging to them in the brain , bordering very near upon one another ; when , therefore , any one of ...
The set of ideas which we received from such a profpect or garden , having entered the mind at the fame time , have a set of traces belonging to them in the brain , bordering very near upon one another ; when , therefore , any one of ...
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| Title | The Spectator, Volume 6 The Spectator, Sir Richard Steele |
| Contributors | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele |
| Publisher | J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750 |
| Original from | University of California Irvine |
| Digitized | 18 Nov 2016 |
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