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... tion , and not on the strength or weakness of any natural fa- culty ; and it is from this difference in knowledge , that what we commonly , though with no great exactness , call a dif- ference in taste proceeds . A man to whom sculpture ...
... tion , and not on the strength or weakness of any natural fa- culty ; and it is from this difference in knowledge , that what we commonly , though with no great exactness , call a dif- ference in taste proceeds . A man to whom sculpture ...
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... tion ; but in the degree there is a difference , which arises from two causes principally ; either from a greater degree of natural sensibility , or from a closer and longer attention to the object . To illustrate this by the procedure ...
... tion ; but in the degree there is a difference , which arises from two causes principally ; either from a greater degree of natural sensibility , or from a closer and longer attention to the object . To illustrate this by the procedure ...
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... tion . These men , though from a different cause , become as stupid and insensible as the former ; but whenever either of these happen to be struck with any natural elegance or greatness , or with these qualities in any work of art ...
... tion . These men , though from a different cause , become as stupid and insensible as the former ; but whenever either of these happen to be struck with any natural elegance or greatness , or with these qualities in any work of art ...
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... tion to anything else . Caius is afflicted with a fit of the colic ; this man is actually in pain ; stretch Caius upon the rack , he will feel a much greater pain : but does this pain of the rack arise from the removal of any pleasure ...
... tion to anything else . Caius is afflicted with a fit of the colic ; this man is actually in pain ; stretch Caius upon the rack , he will feel a much greater pain : but does this pain of the rack arise from the removal of any pleasure ...
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... tion so very pleasant . It has been so strong as to make very miserable men take comfort , that they were supreme in misery ; and certain it is , that , where we cannot distinguish ourselves by something excellent , we begin to take a ...
... tion so very pleasant . It has been so strong as to make very miserable men take comfort , that they were supreme in misery ; and certain it is , that , where we cannot distinguish ourselves by something excellent , we begin to take a ...
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