Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, Volume 14, Part 1Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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... perfon by whom it is felt , and frequently of no use to the person who is its object , it cannot in fuch inftances be the refult of deliberation , but merely the exertion of an original inftinct . The fame kind of reafoning is employed ...
... perfon by whom it is felt , and frequently of no use to the person who is its object , it cannot in fuch inftances be the refult of deliberation , but merely the exertion of an original inftinct . The fame kind of reafoning is employed ...
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... perfon : but obferve the confequence . We have thus , by con- templating the advantage to be derived to ourselves from promoting the profperity of our friend , learned to affocite a fet of pleafint ideas with his happinefs ; but the ...
... perfon : but obferve the confequence . We have thus , by con- templating the advantage to be derived to ourselves from promoting the profperity of our friend , learned to affocite a fet of pleafint ideas with his happinefs ; but the ...
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... perfon who fuffers . Dif- focial paffions only are productive of repulfive emo- tions , involving the fpectator's averfion , and frequently his indignation . This artful contrivance makes us cling to the virtuous , and abhor the wicked ...
... perfon who fuffers . Dif- focial paffions only are productive of repulfive emo- tions , involving the fpectator's averfion , and frequently his indignation . This artful contrivance makes us cling to the virtuous , and abhor the wicked ...
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... perfon who alone was affected with the bad news , yield to evidence that did not convince any of his companions . And Othello is convinced of his wife's infidelity from circumftances too flight to move any perfon less interested . If ...
... perfon who alone was affected with the bad news , yield to evidence that did not convince any of his companions . And Othello is convinced of his wife's infidelity from circumftances too flight to move any perfon less interested . If ...
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... perfon affected with melancholy , has a languid and flow train of perceptions . The expreffion beft fuited to that state of mind , is where words , not only of long , but of many fyllables , abound in the compofition ; and for that ...
... perfon affected with melancholy , has a languid and flow train of perceptions . The expreffion beft fuited to that state of mind , is where words , not only of long , but of many fyllables , abound in the compofition ; and for that ...
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Page 10 - Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
Page 9 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Page 12 - Would have mourn'd longer, — married with mine uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Page 17 - And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
Page 26 - ... happy at his going among them, immediately gathered round him, and made a rude kind of noise, which I believe was their method of singing, as their countenances bespoke it a species of jollity.
Page 14 - Pleurez, pleurez, mes yeux, et fondez-vous en eau! La moitié de ma vie a mis l'autre au tombeau Et m'oblige à venger, après ce coup funeste, Celle que je n'ai plus sur celle qui me reste.
Page 52 - ... bending his notions and manners to theirs, as far as his duty to God would permit ; a conduct compatible neither with the...
Page 134 - Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it. 3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth...
Page 234 - ... has a fresh, healthy look. He wears his beard ; his face is not at all ugly or disagreeable, and he has a look that may be called sensible or sagacious for a savage.
Page 9 - We both have fed as well, and we can both Endure the winter's cold as well as he.