Collected Works, Volume 1Clarendon P., 1966 - English literature |
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... ideas of excessive bitters or intolerable stenches , 30 have some , though but a small share , in our ideas of greatness . With respect to feeling , the idea of bodily pain in all the modes and degrees of labour , anguish , torment , is ...
... ideas of excessive bitters or intolerable stenches , 30 have some , though but a small share , in our ideas of greatness . With respect to feeling , the idea of bodily pain in all the modes and degrees of labour , anguish , torment , is ...
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... idea of the bird of Paradise , but a sublime idea of the Philosopher's learning . The truth is , the Swedes and the Germans , who of late have undertaken to improve Natural History , seem to err as the Schoolmen did of old ; both rank ...
... idea of the bird of Paradise , but a sublime idea of the Philosopher's learning . The truth is , the Swedes and the Germans , who of late have undertaken to improve Natural History , seem to err as the Schoolmen did of old ; both rank ...
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... idea is emphasized by David Hume in his essay ' Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences ' : ' But I am persuaded , that in many cases good reasons might be given , why such a nation is more polite and learned , at a particular ...
... idea is emphasized by David Hume in his essay ' Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences ' : ' But I am persuaded , that in many cases good reasons might be given , why such a nation is more polite and learned , at a particular ...
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