The British encyclopedia, or, Dictionary of arts and sciences, Volume 5 |
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... ideas to the spectator , or in other words , tell his story , are combina- tions of figures and other visible ... idea of a succession of transactions or events ; whereas it cannot by the most laboured description give us any other than ...
... ideas to the spectator , or in other words , tell his story , are combina- tions of figures and other visible ... idea of a succession of transactions or events ; whereas it cannot by the most laboured description give us any other than ...
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... ideas of fine form , and that they were bet- ter enabled to discriminate between the different degrees of beauty , and the varie- ties of character in the human frame , than is the lot of modern artists unaided as they are by such ...
... ideas of fine form , and that they were bet- ter enabled to discriminate between the different degrees of beauty , and the varie- ties of character in the human frame , than is the lot of modern artists unaided as they are by such ...
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... idea of being deprived of some previously experienced pleasure may not influence and promote our apparently dis ... ideas even to madness . In this state of fear they exhibited the most frantic gestures , exclaimed fire in their de ...
... idea of being deprived of some previously experienced pleasure may not influence and promote our apparently dis ... ideas even to madness . In this state of fear they exhibited the most frantic gestures , exclaimed fire in their de ...
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... ideas to the former which it is incapable of separat- ing and appropriating ; but that being rouzed to a sense of ... idea is the grand exciting cause of every passion and affection : it instigates the whole of our conduct ; it pervades ...
... ideas to the former which it is incapable of separat- ing and appropriating ; but that being rouzed to a sense of ... idea is the grand exciting cause of every passion and affection : it instigates the whole of our conduct ; it pervades ...
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... idea of something noble , frightful , amiable , " & c . Mallebranche de- fines the passions as being all those agita- tions of the soul naturally proceeding from uncommon influence and motion in the blood and animal spirits ; those he ...
... idea of something noble , frightful , amiable , " & c . Mallebranche de- fines the passions as being all those agita- tions of the soul naturally proceeding from uncommon influence and motion in the blood and animal spirits ; those he ...
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