Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 2S. Walker, 1826 - English letters |
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Page 313
... pleasure , of some species It is by this principle chiefly that or other , in contemplating objects of poetry , painting , and other affecting this kind . Do we not read the au- arts , transfuse their passions from thentic histories of ...
... pleasure , of some species It is by this principle chiefly that or other , in contemplating objects of poetry , painting , and other affecting this kind . Do we not read the au- arts , transfuse their passions from thentic histories of ...
Page 326
... pleasure as I can derstanding , or at most the pecca- bear : he fully satisfies my expecta- dillos of life , rather than the tragical tion : he treats his subject home : vices , to which men are hurried by his spleen is raised , and he ...
... pleasure as I can derstanding , or at most the pecca- bear : he fully satisfies my expecta- dillos of life , rather than the tragical tion : he treats his subject home : vices , to which men are hurried by his spleen is raised , and he ...
Page 338
... pleasure or vexation , from the fond- ness to extemporary history ; for al- ness or neglect of those about him , most every man has some real or ima- the faculty of giving pleasure is of ginary connexion with a celebrated continual use ...
... pleasure or vexation , from the fond- ness to extemporary history ; for al- ness or neglect of those about him , most every man has some real or ima- the faculty of giving pleasure is of ginary connexion with a celebrated continual use ...
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On the Constitution of England Montesquieu | 3 |
Necessity of the Union | 23 |
The Feudal System | 30 |
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