The Rambler, Volume 5Payne, 1752 |
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... performance , ceafes when we have leisure to difentangle complications and investigate caufes . Wonder is a pause of reafon , a fud- den ceffation of the mental progrefs , which lafts only while the understanding is fixed upon fome ...
... performance , ceafes when we have leisure to difentangle complications and investigate caufes . Wonder is a pause of reafon , a fud- den ceffation of the mental progrefs , which lafts only while the understanding is fixed upon fome ...
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... performances . A long calculation or a complex diagram affrights the timorous and unexperienced from a fecond view ; but if we have skill sufficient to analife them into fimple principles , it will generally be difco- vered that our ...
... performances . A long calculation or a complex diagram affrights the timorous and unexperienced from a fecond view ; but if we have skill sufficient to analife them into fimple principles , it will generally be difco- vered that our ...
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... performance of the great author of Paradife loft , and opposed with all the confidence of triumph to the dramatick per , performances of other nations . It contains . indeed juft 20 The RAMBLER . No. 139 .
... performance of the great author of Paradife loft , and opposed with all the confidence of triumph to the dramatick per , performances of other nations . It contains . indeed juft 20 The RAMBLER . No. 139 .
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Samuel Johnson. performances of other nations . It contains . indeed juft fentiments , maxims of wisdom , and oracles of piety , and many paffages written ' with the antient fpirit of choral poetry , in which there is a just and pleasing ...
Samuel Johnson. performances of other nations . It contains . indeed juft fentiments , maxims of wisdom , and oracles of piety , and many paffages written ' with the antient fpirit of choral poetry , in which there is a just and pleasing ...
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... performance of ge- nius happens to be celebrated , he pronounces the writer a hopeless ideot , without know- ledge of books or life , and without the un- derstanding by which it must be acquired . His exaggerations are generally without ...
... performance of ge- nius happens to be celebrated , he pronounces the writer a hopeless ideot , without know- ledge of books or life , and without the un- derstanding by which it must be acquired . His exaggerations are generally without ...
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