The Spectator, Volume 5George Atherton Aitken G. Routledge, 1898 - English essays |
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Page 36
... objects at the greatest distance , and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoy- ments . The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension , shape , and all other ideas that enter ...
... objects at the greatest distance , and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoy- ments . The sense of feeling can indeed give us a notion of extension , shape , and all other ideas that enter ...
Page 37
... objects as are before our eyes 2 ; and in the next place , to speak of those secondary pleasures of the imagination which flow from the ideas of visible objects , when the objects are not actually before the eye , but are called up into ...
... objects as are before our eyes 2 ; and in the next place , to speak of those secondary pleasures of the imagination which flow from the ideas of visible objects , when the objects are not actually before the eye , but are called up into ...
Page 45
... objects pleasant , or rather has made so many objects appear beautiful , that He might render the whole creation more gay and de- lightful . He has given almost everything about us the power of raising an agreeable idea in the imagin ...
... objects pleasant , or rather has made so many objects appear beautiful , that He might render the whole creation more gay and de- lightful . He has given almost everything about us the power of raising an agreeable idea in the imagin ...
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