The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 42Tobias Smollett W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1776 - English literature Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue." |
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... ideas ; and he diftinguishes it into three kinds , according to the different ways in which it operates . The first kind confifts in debafing things pompous or feemingly grave : the fecond , in aggrandizing things little and frivolous ...
... ideas ; and he diftinguishes it into three kinds , according to the different ways in which it operates . The first kind confifts in debafing things pompous or feemingly grave : the fecond , in aggrandizing things little and frivolous ...
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Tobias Smollett. eminence by comparison , but purely from the odd affemblage of ideas , that the laughter fprings , is evident from this , that if you make but a trifling alteration on the expreffion , fo as to de- ftroy the wit ( which ...
Tobias Smollett. eminence by comparison , but purely from the odd affemblage of ideas , that the laughter fprings , is evident from this , that if you make but a trifling alteration on the expreffion , fo as to de- ftroy the wit ( which ...
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... ideas of the mind . The third , that pain of every kind generally makes a deeper impreffion on the imagination than pleasure does , and is longer retained by the memory . The fourth , that from a group of paffions affociated together ...
... ideas of the mind . The third , that pain of every kind generally makes a deeper impreffion on the imagination than pleasure does , and is longer retained by the memory . The fourth , that from a group of paffions affociated together ...
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... idea or reflection , but what concerns perfonal safety . ' The fixth and laft obfervation on this head is , that pity is not a fimple paffion , but a group of paffions ftrictly united by affociation , and as it were blended , by ...
... idea or reflection , but what concerns perfonal safety . ' The fixth and laft obfervation on this head is , that pity is not a fimple paffion , but a group of paffions ftrictly united by affociation , and as it were blended , by ...
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... ideas ; it is even contradicted by experience . How will you perfuade us , will the poffeffors of land fay , that we have no greater in- tereft in cultivating when the feptier is worth thirty livres , than when it is worth but twenty ...
... ideas ; it is even contradicted by experience . How will you perfuade us , will the poffeffors of land fay , that we have no greater in- tereft in cultivating when the feptier is worth thirty livres , than when it is worth but twenty ...
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Page 118 - And whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
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