Elements of Criticism, Volume 1Bell & Bradfute, 1817 - 515 páginas |
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... social state with dignity and propriety . The science of rational criticism tends to im prove the heart no less than the understanding . It tends , in the first place , to moderate the selfish affections : By sweetening and harmonizing ...
... social state with dignity and propriety . The science of rational criticism tends to im prove the heart no less than the understanding . It tends , in the first place , to moderate the selfish affections : By sweetening and harmonizing ...
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... social intercourse : pride and envy put a man perpetually in opposition to others ; and dispose him to relish bad more than * If any youth of a splendid fortune and English education stumble perchance upon this book and this passage ...
... social intercourse : pride and envy put a man perpetually in opposition to others ; and dispose him to relish bad more than * If any youth of a splendid fortune and English education stumble perchance upon this book and this passage ...
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... social affections , than to moderate those that are selfish . To be convinced of that tendency , we need only reflect , that delicacy of taste necessarily heightens our feeling of pain and pleasure ; and of course our sympathy , which ...
... social affections , than to moderate those that are selfish . To be convinced of that tendency , we need only reflect , that delicacy of taste necessarily heightens our feeling of pain and pleasure ; and of course our sympathy , which ...
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... social . Hence it follows , that instinctive actions , where we act blindly and merely by impulse , cannot be reckoned either social or selfish : thus eating , when prompt ed by an impulse merely of nature , is neither social nor ...
... social . Hence it follows , that instinctive actions , where we act blindly and merely by impulse , cannot be reckoned either social or selfish : thus eating , when prompt ed by an impulse merely of nature , is neither social nor ...
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... social nor selfish : when ex- erted with a view to gratification , it is selfish : when the motive of giving pleasure to its object is super- added , it is partly social , partly selfish . A just action , when prompted by the principle ...
... social nor selfish : when ex- erted with a view to gratification , it is selfish : when the motive of giving pleasure to its object is super- added , it is partly social , partly selfish . A just action , when prompted by the principle ...
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