The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Том 1A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... observe here , that since trans- Loribing the present work for the press , a manuscript was put into his hands by Doctor Beattie , at the very time that , in order to be favoured with the Doctor's Topinion of this performance , the ...
... observe here , that since trans- Loribing the present work for the press , a manuscript was put into his hands by Doctor Beattie , at the very time that , in order to be favoured with the Doctor's Topinion of this performance , the ...
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... observation , which are scarcely worth notice as subjects either of censure or of praise . Nor is there any thing in this book , which , in his opinion , will create even the smallest difficulty to persons accustomed to enquire into the ...
... observation , which are scarcely worth notice as subjects either of censure or of praise . Nor is there any thing in this book , which , in his opinion , will create even the smallest difficulty to persons accustomed to enquire into the ...
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... observation , and are not derived , like pure mathema- tics , from abstract and universal axioms . But even in these , when we rise from the individual to the spe cies , from the species to the genus , and thence to the most extensive ...
... observation , and are not derived , like pure mathema- tics , from abstract and universal axioms . But even in these , when we rise from the individual to the spe cies , from the species to the genus , and thence to the most extensive ...
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... observed , that the remarks now made regard only the advancement of the arts themselves ; for though the useful are of slower growth than the other , and their utmost perfection cannot always be so easily ascertained , yet the ...
... observed , that the remarks now made regard only the advancement of the arts themselves ; for though the useful are of slower growth than the other , and their utmost perfection cannot always be so easily ascertained , yet the ...
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... observed further , that as the gratification of taste is the immediate object of the fine arts , their effect is in a manner instantaneous , and the quality of any new production in these is immediately judged by every body ; for all ...
... observed further , that as the gratification of taste is the immediate object of the fine arts , their effect is in a manner instantaneous , and the quality of any new production in these is immediately judged by every body ; for all ...
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