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... first discove by logical reasoning , and then app to poetry ; but they were drawn fr the practice of Homer and Sophoc they were founded upon obferv the fuperior pleasure which we rece from the relation of an action wl is one and entire ...
... first discove by logical reasoning , and then app to poetry ; but they were drawn fr the practice of Homer and Sophoc they were founded upon obferv the fuperior pleasure which we rece from the relation of an action wl is one and entire ...
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... be founded on t or not , can never be reduced to tainty ; yet as nothing affords gre pleasure to the human mind , tha attention to thofe events , which removed , the fame appearances as in the bank first 62 Natural History.
... be founded on t or not , can never be reduced to tainty ; yet as nothing affords gre pleasure to the human mind , tha attention to thofe events , which removed , the fame appearances as in the bank first 62 Natural History.
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removed , the fame appearances as in the bank first mentioned . What the inhabitants of York - town call their ftone , and with which they build their houfes , is nothing more than fhells united by a frong cement , which feems petrified ...
removed , the fame appearances as in the bank first mentioned . What the inhabitants of York - town call their ftone , and with which they build their houfes , is nothing more than fhells united by a frong cement , which feems petrified ...
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... first . I need not inform you , that I only affert this after Shaftsbu- ry , and all the elegant moralifts of antiquity . A perfon may be an ad- mirer of falfe beauty , falfe wit , falfe foreace , falfe compofition of mufic : but he who ...
... first . I need not inform you , that I only affert this after Shaftsbu- ry , and all the elegant moralifts of antiquity . A perfon may be an ad- mirer of falfe beauty , falfe wit , falfe foreace , falfe compofition of mufic : but he who ...
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... first caufe , Whoats on earth by general laws , And as my skiff is paffing down Life's rapid ftream which time rolls on , May bleft devotion's facred gale Waft it along with eafieft fail . III . How great that God , prime fource of day ...
... first caufe , Whoats on earth by general laws , And as my skiff is paffing down Life's rapid ftream which time rolls on , May bleft devotion's facred gale Waft it along with eafieft fail . III . How great that God , prime fource of day ...
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Page 510 - And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment ; that ye may approve things that are excellent ; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
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