The Adventurer, Volume 4S. Doig, 1793 |
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... mind . Mechanical caufes , therefore , may produce infenfibility of danger ; but it is abfurd to fuppofe they can produce courage , for courage is an effort of the mind by which a sense of danger is furmounted ; and it cannot be faid ...
... mind . Mechanical caufes , therefore , may produce infenfibility of danger ; but it is abfurd to fuppofe they can produce courage , for courage is an effort of the mind by which a sense of danger is furmounted ; and it cannot be faid ...
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... minds impreffed with different notions , and direct their inquiries to different ends ; they form , therefore ... mind has been wavering , and he has perfifted in a scheme of action , rather because he feared the cenfure of incon ...
... minds impreffed with different notions , and direct their inquiries to different ends ; they form , therefore ... mind has been wavering , and he has perfifted in a scheme of action , rather because he feared the cenfure of incon ...
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... mind refifts mournful im preffions with a kind of elaftic power , by which the fignature that is forced upon it is immediately effaced : when this tumult first fubfides , while the attachment of life is yet flrong , and the mind begins ...
... mind refifts mournful im preffions with a kind of elaftic power , by which the fignature that is forced upon it is immediately effaced : when this tumult first fubfides , while the attachment of life is yet flrong , and the mind begins ...
Contents
Different opinions equally plaufible | 7 |
i08 The uncertainty of human things | 13 |
A vifion | 19 |
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