Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, 1. köidePress of M. Carey, March 19, 1793 |
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... mind , and to fupply him with rational and useful entertainment . They open a field of investi- gation peculiar to themselves . All that relates to beauty , harmony , grandeur , and elegance ; all that can footh the mind , gratify the ...
... mind , and to fupply him with rational and useful entertainment . They open a field of investi- gation peculiar to themselves . All that relates to beauty , harmony , grandeur , and elegance ; all that can footh the mind , gratify the ...
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... mind , than in the entertainments of tafte , and the ftudy of polite literature ? He who is fo happy as to have ac- quired a relifh for thefe , has always at hand an in- nocent and irreproachable amusement for his leifure hours , to ...
... mind , than in the entertainments of tafte , and the ftudy of polite literature ? He who is fo happy as to have ac- quired a relifh for thefe , has always at hand an in- nocent and irreproachable amusement for his leifure hours , to ...
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... minds have this liberal and elegant turn . It is favourable to many virtues .. Whereas , to be entirely devoid of relifh ... mind .. neceffary for reforming the corrupt propensities which too frequently prevail LECT . I. 15 INTRODUCTION .
... minds have this liberal and elegant turn . It is favourable to many virtues .. Whereas , to be entirely devoid of relifh ... mind .. neceffary for reforming the corrupt propensities which too frequently prevail LECT . I. 15 INTRODUCTION .
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... mind , while bad paffions poffefs the interior regions of the heart . At the fame time , this cannot but be admitted , that the exercife of taste is , in its native tendency , moral and purifying . From reading the most admired ...
... mind , while bad paffions poffefs the interior regions of the heart . At the fame time , this cannot but be admitted , that the exercife of taste is , in its native tendency , moral and purifying . From reading the most admired ...
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... mind which in fpeculative matters difcovers truth , and in practical matters judges of the fitness of means to an end , I apprehend the question may be eafily anfwered . For nothing can be more clear , than that tafte is not refolvable ...
... mind which in fpeculative matters difcovers truth , and in practical matters judges of the fitness of means to an end , I apprehend the question may be eafily anfwered . For nothing can be more clear , than that tafte is not refolvable ...
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Page 47 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: it stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Page 309 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Page 309 - Art thou also become weak as we ? art thou become like unto us? Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
Page 64 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 56 - In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
Page 389 - Delightful scenes, whether in nature, painting, or poetry, have a kindly influence on the body as well as the mind ; and not only serve to clear and brighten the imagination, but are able to disperse grief and melancholy, and to set the animal spirits in pleasing and agreeable motions.
Page 287 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, So that all they which pass by the way do pluck her ? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, < And the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Page 403 - There is a second kind of beauty that we find in the several products of art and nature, which does not work in the imagination with that warmth and violence as the beauty that appears in our proper species, but is apt however to raise in us a secret delight, and a kind of fondness for the places or objects in which we discover it.
Page 58 - That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.
Page 181 - Entire, complete. — A thing is entire, by wanting none of its parts ; complete, by wanting none of the appendages that belong to it. A man may have an entire house to himself, and yet not have one complete apartment.