The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Band 1A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... pleasure which we receive from objects or representations that excite pity and other painful feelings .. SECT . I. The different solutions hitherto given by phi- losophers , examined . Part I. The first hypothesis . Part II . The second ...
... pleasure which we receive from objects or representations that excite pity and other painful feelings .. SECT . I. The different solutions hitherto given by phi- losophers , examined . Part I. The first hypothesis . Part II . The second ...
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... pleasure of which the ima- gination is susceptible by a poetical narrative or exhi- bition , is a thing , in my judgment , not inconceivable . We Britons , for example , do , by immense degrees , excel the ancient Greeks in the arts of ...
... pleasure of which the ima- gination is susceptible by a poetical narrative or exhi- bition , is a thing , in my judgment , not inconceivable . We Britons , for example , do , by immense degrees , excel the ancient Greeks in the arts of ...
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... pleasurable sensation which instantly ariseth on the perception of magnitude , or of whatever is great and stupendous in its kind . For there is a greatness in the degrees of quality in spiritual subjects , analogous to that which ...
... pleasurable sensation which instantly ariseth on the perception of magnitude , or of whatever is great and stupendous in its kind . For there is a greatness in the degrees of quality in spiritual subjects , analogous to that which ...
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... pleasure . Would we penetrate farther , and agitate the soul , we must exhibit only some vivid strokes , some expressive fea- tures , not decorated as for show ( all ostentation being both despicable and hurtful here ) , but such as ...
... pleasure . Would we penetrate farther , and agitate the soul , we must exhibit only some vivid strokes , some expressive fea- tures , not decorated as for show ( all ostentation being both despicable and hurtful here ) , but such as ...
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... pleasure , thought- " lessness , and presumption ; accordingly you find , " that when this foundation is subverted , the whole " fabric of Infidelity falls to pieces . " There is rarely , however , so much of argument in ridicule , as ...
... pleasure , thought- " lessness , and presumption ; accordingly you find , " that when this foundation is subverted , the whole " fabric of Infidelity falls to pieces . " There is rarely , however , so much of argument in ridicule , as ...
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