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Page 23
... mind . These are the inlets of pre- judice , the unguarded avenues of the mind , by which a thoufand errors and fecret faults find admiffion , without being obferved or taken notice of . A wife man will fufpect those actions to which he ...
... mind . These are the inlets of pre- judice , the unguarded avenues of the mind , by which a thoufand errors and fecret faults find admiffion , without being obferved or taken notice of . A wife man will fufpect those actions to which he ...
Page 67
... mind is every instant called off to something new , and the atten- tion not fuffered to dwell too long , and wafte itself on any particular object . It is this , likewife , that im- proves what is great or beautiful , and makes it ...
... mind is every instant called off to something new , and the atten- tion not fuffered to dwell too long , and wafte itself on any particular object . It is this , likewife , that im- proves what is great or beautiful , and makes it ...
Page 90
but the action of the mind , which compares the ideas that arife from words , with the ideas that arife from objects themselves ; and why this operation of the mind is attended with fo much pleasure , we have before con- fidered . For ...
but the action of the mind , which compares the ideas that arife from words , with the ideas that arife from objects themselves ; and why this operation of the mind is attended with fo much pleasure , we have before con- fidered . For ...
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