An Appeal to the Loyal Citizens of DublinJohn Milliken, 1800 - 41 páginas |
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... paffions , which they had themselves excited . To accomplish the triumph of paffion over reafon , and of rashness and precipitancy over caution and deliberation , a few factious words thrown in , as oil to a flame , are sufficient to ...
... paffions , which they had themselves excited . To accomplish the triumph of paffion over reafon , and of rashness and precipitancy over caution and deliberation , a few factious words thrown in , as oil to a flame , are sufficient to ...
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... paf- fions to frenzy . They continued to addrefs you in the fame ftile of declamation without reafoning , of al- fertion without proof , and of menace and violence without prudence or difcretion , which disgraced their meetings in the ...
... paf- fions to frenzy . They continued to addrefs you in the fame ftile of declamation without reafoning , of al- fertion without proof , and of menace and violence without prudence or difcretion , which disgraced their meetings in the ...
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... paffions , that will for ever operate in conjunctures , where matters of the very firft national and im- perial concern , come under the difcuffion of the great deliberative affembly . In addition to the ufual incitements to warm ...
... paffions , that will for ever operate in conjunctures , where matters of the very firft national and im- perial concern , come under the difcuffion of the great deliberative affembly . In addition to the ufual incitements to warm ...
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... paffions , that fo continually agitate the human mind , might fhock it fo , as to reduce it to annihilation . Man fhould be new made , fociety should exhibit what had never yet been exhibited by by fociety , before this difcordant frame ...
... paffions , that fo continually agitate the human mind , might fhock it fo , as to reduce it to annihilation . Man fhould be new made , fociety should exhibit what had never yet been exhibited by by fociety , before this difcordant frame ...
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... paffions both good and bad to be found in the community . Ardent attachment to our own nation , arifing from ... paffion ; the love of violence , always operative in the unthinking but ac- tive and turbulent majority ; all these ...
... paffions both good and bad to be found in the community . Ardent attachment to our own nation , arifing from ... paffion ; the love of violence , always operative in the unthinking but ac- tive and turbulent majority ; all these ...
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Abbey againſt alfo almoſt anfwer arife beauty becauſe beſt body Britain Britiſh cafe Captain Giffard Catholic caufe cauſe circumftances Colonel Sankey confequence confiderable confidered conftitution connexion Court defire deftroy deftruction diftinct Dublin effect England Engliſh eſtabliſhed exiſtence faid fame fecurity feems fenfe fent feparation fhall fhew fhoes fhould fimilar fince firft firſt fituation fociety fome fpirit ftate ftrength fubfifted fubject fublime fuch fuffer fuppofe fupport fure fyftem himſelf Houſe idea increaſe independent induſtry intereft Ireland itſelf Kilcullen kingdoms laft land laſt lefs legiſlature Major Sankey meaſure ment mind moft moſt muft muſt nature neceffarily neceffary neceffity obferved occafion officer oppofition orders paffed paffions pain parade parliament parliament of Ireland perfons pleaſure poffeffed pofitive political prefent prifoner principle profperity proteftant purpoſe queftion raiſed reafon refpect reft regiment reprefentatives Scotland SECT Serjeant ſtate thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe tion Union uſeful whofe
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Página 20 - ... upon all the objects that surround us, how lively at that time are our sensations, but how false and inaccurate the judgments we form of things ? I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most excellent performances of genius, which I felt at that age, from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.
Página 3 - A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined ; but let the virtue of a definition be what it will, in the order of things, it seems rather to follow than to precede our inquiry, of which it ought to be considered as the result.
Página 43 - The satisfaction has been commonly attributed, first to the comfort we receive in considering that so melancholy a story is no more than a fiction ; and next, to the contemplation of our own freedom from the evils which we see represented.
Página 20 - In the morning of our days, when the senses are unworn and tender, when the whole man is awake in every part, and the gloss of novelty fresh upon all the objects that surround us, how lively at that time are our sensations, but how false and inaccurate the judgments we form of things...
Página 132 - First, to be comparatively small. Secondly, to be smooth. Thirdly, to have a variety in the direction of the parts ; but, fourthly, to have those parts not angular, but melted as it were into each other. Fifthly, to be of a delicate frame, without any remarkable appearance of strength. Sixthly, to have its colours clear and bright, but not very strong and glaring. Seventhly, or if it should have any glaring colour, to have it diversified with others.
Página 17 - On the whole, it appears to me that what is called taste, in its most general acceptation, is not a simple idea, but is partly made up of a perception of the primary pleasures of sense, of the secondary pleasures of the imagination, and of the conclusions of the reasoning faculty...
Página 61 - IT is one thing to make an idea clear, and another to make it affecting to the imagination.
Página 199 - Certain it is, that the influence of most things on our passions is not so much from the things themselves, as from our opinions concerning them ; and these again depend very much on the opinions of other men, conveyable for the most part by words only.
Página 1 - ON a superficial view, we may seem to differ very widely from each other in our reasonings, and no less in our pleasures : but notwithstanding this difference, which I think to be rather apparent than real, it is probable that the standard both of reason and taste is the same in all human creatures.
Página 56 - I am sensible I have not disposed my materials to abide the test of a captious controversy, but of a sober and even forgiving examination, that they are not armed at all points for battle, but dressed to visit those who are willing to give a peaceful entrance to truth.