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... attention of any author . An author , so far from having reason to be offended , is doubtless obliged to the man . who , free from captious petulance , candidly points out his er- rors of what kind soever they be . INTRODUCTION . BOOK I ...
... attention of any author . An author , so far from having reason to be offended , is doubtless obliged to the man . who , free from captious petulance , candidly points out his er- rors of what kind soever they be . INTRODUCTION . BOOK I ...
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... attention , rouses the passions , and often at last subdues the most stubborn resolution . It is also a useful art . This is certainly the case , if the power of speech be a useful faculty , as it professedly teaches us how to employ ...
... attention , rouses the passions , and often at last subdues the most stubborn resolution . It is also a useful art . This is certainly the case , if the power of speech be a useful faculty , as it professedly teaches us how to employ ...
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... attention from it . There is indeed one kind of address to the understanding , and only one , which , it may not be improper to observe , disdains all assistance whatever from the fancy . The address I mean is mathematical de ...
... attention from it . There is indeed one kind of address to the understanding , and only one , which , it may not be improper to observe , disdains all assistance whatever from the fancy . The address I mean is mathematical de ...
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... attention ; and by the justness of the reasoning , the passion may be more deeply rooted and enforced ; and that thus , both may be made to conspire in effectuating that persuasion which is the end proposed . For here , if I may adopt ...
... attention ; and by the justness of the reasoning , the passion may be more deeply rooted and enforced ; and that thus , both may be made to conspire in effectuating that persuasion which is the end proposed . For here , if I may adopt ...
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... attention has been always given to morals , particularly in comedy , must be left to the determination of those who are most conversant in that species of scenic representations . One may , however , venture to prognos- ticate , that if ...
... attention has been always given to morals , particularly in comedy , must be left to the determination of those who are most conversant in that species of scenic representations . One may , however , venture to prognos- ticate , that if ...
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