Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. ...A. Miller, 1768 |
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... perfection much beyond what he has experience of in himself ; and is not limited in his conception of wisdom and virtue . He can easily exalt his notions and conceive a degree of knowledge , which , when compared to his own , will make ...
... perfection much beyond what he has experience of in himself ; and is not limited in his conception of wisdom and virtue . He can easily exalt his notions and conceive a degree of knowledge , which , when compared to his own , will make ...
Page 96
... perfection by the GREEKS , amidst continual wars , attended with poverty , and the greatest fimplicity of life and manners . It had also been observed , that as the GREEKS loft their liberty , though they encreased mightily in riches ...
... perfection by the GREEKS , amidst continual wars , attended with poverty , and the greatest fimplicity of life and manners . It had also been observed , that as the GREEKS loft their liberty , though they encreased mightily in riches ...
Page 97
... perfection all the finer arts of fculpture , painting and mufic , as well as poetry , though it groaned under tyranny , and under the tyranny of priests : While the latter made the greatest progress in the arts and fciences , after it ...
... perfection all the finer arts of fculpture , painting and mufic , as well as poetry , though it groaned under tyranny , and under the tyranny of priests : While the latter made the greatest progress in the arts and fciences , after it ...
Page 99
... perfection . It has become an established opinion , that commerce can never flourish but in a free government ; and this opinion feems to be founded on a longer and larger experience than the fore- going , with regard to the arts and ...
... perfection . It has become an established opinion , that commerce can never flourish but in a free government ; and this opinion feems to be founded on a longer and larger experience than the fore- going , with regard to the arts and ...
Page 101
... perfection . It may now be affirmed of civilized monarchies , what was formerly faid in praise of republics alone , that they are a government of Laws , not of men . They are found fufceptible of order , method , and con- ftancy , to a ...
... perfection . It may now be affirmed of civilized monarchies , what was formerly faid in praise of republics alone , that they are a government of Laws , not of men . They are found fufceptible of order , method , and con- ftancy , to a ...
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Page 273 - ... strong sense, united to delicate sentiment, improved by practice, perfected by comparison, and cleared of all prejudice, can alone entitle critics to this valuable character; and the joint verdict of such, wherever they are to be found, is the true standard of taste and beauty.
Page 252 - He himself, as well as the readers of that age, were too deeply concerned in the events, and felt a pain from subjects which an historian and a reader of another age would regard as the most pathetic and most interesting, and, by consequence, the most agreeable.
Page 259 - On the contrary, a thousand different sentiments excited by the same object are all right, because no sentiment represents what is really in the object. It only marks a certain conformity or relation between the object and the organs or faculties of the mind; and if that conformity did not really exist, the sentiment could never possibly have being.
Page 319 - But these advantages are compensated in some measure by the low price of labour in every nation which has not an extensive commerce and does not much abound in gold and silver.
Page 336 - ... the pursuit of the greater part of the landholders, and the prodigals among them -will always be more numerous than the misers. In a state, therefore, where there is nothing but a landed interest, as there is little frugality, the borrowers must be very numerous, and the rate of interest must hold proportion to it. The difference depends not on the quantity of money, but on the habits and manners which prevail.
Page 262 - When we would make an experiment of this nature, and would try the force of any beauty or deformity, we must choose with care a proper time and place, and bring the fancy to a suitable situation and disposition. A perfect serenity of mind, a recollection of thought, a due attention to the object; if any of these circumstances be wanting, our experiment will be fallacious, and we shall be unable to judge...
Page 246 - which are two sentiments so different in themselves, differ not so much in their cause. From the instance of tickling it appears, that the movement of pleasure pushed a little too far, becomes pain, and that the movement of pain, a little moderated, becomes pleasure.
Page 323 - They are thereby enabled to employ more workmen than formerly, who never dream of demanding higher wages, but are glad of employment from such good paymasters.
Page 259 - Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.