The Mirror: A Periodical Paper, Pub. at Edinburgh in the Years 1779 and 1780, Volume 3W. Creech, Edinburgh, and W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, London, 1781 |
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Pagina 10
... imagination ; but , with men deftitute of that fentiment which they inspire , pleasure will commonly degenerate in- to groffnefs , fociality into intemperance , and mirth into riot . Mr Melfort is one of my friend Mr Um- phraville's ...
... imagination ; but , with men deftitute of that fentiment which they inspire , pleasure will commonly degenerate in- to groffnefs , fociality into intemperance , and mirth into riot . Mr Melfort is one of my friend Mr Um- phraville's ...
Pagina 21
... imagination , and is no longer feen as it is by other men , nor as it would be by the fame perfon , were other objects allowed to have a place in his mind , or to divide his attention . From this circumftance in our nature , that fixing ...
... imagination , and is no longer feen as it is by other men , nor as it would be by the fame perfon , were other objects allowed to have a place in his mind , or to divide his attention . From this circumftance in our nature , that fixing ...
Pagina 22
... imagination , a variety of remarks might be made , tending to illuftrate the hi- ftory of the human heart . It is owing to this circumftance , that a general lover feldom forms an attachment to any particular object . It is from the ...
... imagination , a variety of remarks might be made , tending to illuftrate the hi- ftory of the human heart . It is owing to this circumftance , that a general lover feldom forms an attachment to any particular object . It is from the ...
Pagina 105
... imagination , and fills the mind with terrors and apprehen- fions , which reafon and philofophy have not power to eradicate , when once they have fair- ly got hold of us . Of this fort is the dread of apparitions , of spirits , and of ...
... imagination , and fills the mind with terrors and apprehen- fions , which reafon and philofophy have not power to eradicate , when once they have fair- ly got hold of us . Of this fort is the dread of apparitions , of spirits , and of ...
Pagina 106
... imagination which they are apt to contract when they are young , and are not able to fhake off when they grow up . He justly obferves , that , next to a clear judge- ment and a good confcience , a found imagina- tion is the greatest ...
... imagination which they are apt to contract when they are young , and are not able to fhake off when they grow up . He justly obferves , that , next to a clear judge- ment and a good confcience , a found imagina- tion is the greatest ...
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The Mirror: A Periodical Paper, Pub. at Edinburgh in the Years ..., Volume 2 Volledige weergave - 1781 |
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