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... things not dangerous sometimes produce a Passion like Terror 149 x . Why visual Objects of great Dimensions are sublime x . Unity , why requisite to Vastness ib . 150 XI . The artificial Infinite 151 XII . The Vibrations must be similar ...
... things not dangerous sometimes produce a Passion like Terror 149 x . Why visual Objects of great Dimensions are sublime x . Unity , why requisite to Vastness ib . 150 XI . The artificial Infinite 151 XII . The Vibrations must be similar ...
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... things were expected from the leisure of a man , who , from the splendid scene of action in which his talents had enabled him to make so conspicuous a figure , had retired to employ those talents in the investigation of truth ...
... things were expected from the leisure of a man , who , from the splendid scene of action in which his talents had enabled him to make so conspicuous a figure , had retired to employ those talents in the investigation of truth ...
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... things which they , who doubt of everything else , will never permit to be ques- tioned . It is an observation which I think Isocrates makes in one of his orations against the sophists , that it is far more easy to maintain a wrong ...
... things which they , who doubt of everything else , will never permit to be ques- tioned . It is an observation which I think Isocrates makes in one of his orations against the sophists , that it is far more easy to maintain a wrong ...
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... things of the last importance . And I could demon- strate , that they have had the opportunity of doing all this mischief , nay , that they themselves had their origin and growth from that complex form of government which we are wisely ...
... things of the last importance . And I could demon- strate , that they have had the opportunity of doing all this mischief , nay , that they themselves had their origin and growth from that complex form of government which we are wisely ...
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... things ; and that those who labour not at all have the greatest number of enjoyments . A constitution of things this , strange A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 41.
... things ; and that those who labour not at all have the greatest number of enjoyments . A constitution of things this , strange A VINDICATION OF NATURAL SOCIETY . 41.
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