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... become united . Thus the ideas of the figure and colour of bodies admitted by the eye are always combined , and these may be still as- sociated with another idea admitted by means of the touch B2 PRINCIPLE OF ASSOCIATION . 3.
... become united . Thus the ideas of the figure and colour of bodies admitted by the eye are always combined , and these may be still as- sociated with another idea admitted by means of the touch B2 PRINCIPLE OF ASSOCIATION . 3.
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Addressed to His Son George Gregory. sociated with another idea admitted by means of the touch . Thus the idea , or picture formed in the mind of any object , is complex , or com- posed of several ideas united : of figure , colour , and ...
Addressed to His Son George Gregory. sociated with another idea admitted by means of the touch . Thus the idea , or picture formed in the mind of any object , is complex , or com- posed of several ideas united : of figure , colour , and ...
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... mean by an ornamented style ; it is that in which lively description , similies , al- lusions , metaphors , and the other figures of rhetoric abound . Poetry always interests a reader of taste more than prose . The causes of this are ...
... mean by an ornamented style ; it is that in which lively description , similies , al- lusions , metaphors , and the other figures of rhetoric abound . Poetry always interests a reader of taste more than prose . The causes of this are ...
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... means to avoid , and to what lengths of folly human reason will go , when it pretends to account for every thing . Though we discard , however , Dr. Hartley's theory of the ridiculous , yet I think we may fairly say that it always ...
... means to avoid , and to what lengths of folly human reason will go , when it pretends to account for every thing . Though we discard , however , Dr. Hartley's theory of the ridiculous , yet I think we may fairly say that it always ...
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... mean or little . " The Greeks renowned , so Homer writes , " For well - soaled boots , as well as fights . " - HUD . The order is reversed , however , in some in- stances of the mock - heroic , as in the Lutrin of Boileau , and the ...
... mean or little . " The Greeks renowned , so Homer writes , " For well - soaled boots , as well as fights . " - HUD . The order is reversed , however , in some in- stances of the mock - heroic , as in the Lutrin of Boileau , and the ...
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