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ܪ I have often thought , that it would be neither uninstructive nor unamusing to analyze , and bring forward into distinct consciousness , that complex feeling , with which readers in general take part against the author , in favor of ...
ܪ I have often thought , that it would be neither uninstructive nor unamusing to analyze , and bring forward into distinct consciousness , that complex feeling , with which readers in general take part against the author , in favor of ...
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... the possibility of this state , being such disproportionate vividness of two distant thoughts , as extinguishes or obscures the consciousness of the intermediate images or conceptions , or wholly abstracts the attention from them .
... the possibility of this state , being such disproportionate vividness of two distant thoughts , as extinguishes or obscures the consciousness of the intermediate images or conceptions , or wholly abstracts the attention from them .
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... namely , signifying the act of self - consciousness , sometimes the external image in and by which the mind represents that act to itself , the result and symbol of its individuality . Now suppose the direct contrary state , and you ...
... namely , signifying the act of self - consciousness , sometimes the external image in and by which the mind represents that act to itself , the result and symbol of its individuality . Now suppose the direct contrary state , and you ...
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I wish to add the trunk , and even the roots as far as they lift themselves above ground , and are visible to the naked eye of our common consciousness . Yet even in this attempt I am aware , that I shall be obliged to draw more largely ...
I wish to add the trunk , and even the roots as far as they lift themselves above ground , and are visible to the naked eye of our common consciousness . Yet even in this attempt I am aware , that I shall be obliged to draw more largely ...
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... while in the latter , sometimes our will interfered as the producing or determining cause , and sometimes our nature seemed to act by a mechanism of its own , without any conscious effort of the ' will , or even against it .
... while in the latter , sometimes our will interfered as the producing or determining cause , and sometimes our nature seemed to act by a mechanism of its own , without any conscious effort of the ' will , or even against it .
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| Title | Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions Volume 1 of Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Publisher | Fenner, 1817 |
| Original from | the Bavarian State Library |
| Digitized | 23 Jan 2009 |
| Length | 296 pages |
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