Rural Philosophy: Or, Reflections on Knowledge, Virtue, and Happiness : Chiefly in Reference to a Life of Retirement in the CountryA. Strahan, 1804 - 383 من الصفحات |
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... genius or elegance : yet we still continue to go down to the Philistines , to sharpen every one his share , and his coulter , and his are , and his mattock , as if there was no smith in Israel * . I would next address myself to such as ...
... genius or elegance : yet we still continue to go down to the Philistines , to sharpen every one his share , and his coulter , and his are , and his mattock , as if there was no smith in Israel * . I would next address myself to such as ...
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... genius . " When two contraries ( he observes ) come to be blended , of whatever kind , the combination produces pleasure , beauty and harmony . I call the instant and the point of their union harmonic expression . This is the only ...
... genius . " When two contraries ( he observes ) come to be blended , of whatever kind , the combination produces pleasure , beauty and harmony . I call the instant and the point of their union harmonic expression . This is the only ...
الصفحة 84
... genius broke forth , probably no less to the suprise of himself than of others * . Whether it had been better on his own account , as well as for his country , had he never emerged from his original obscurity , and been awakened to a ...
... genius broke forth , probably no less to the suprise of himself than of others * . Whether it had been better on his own account , as well as for his country , had he never emerged from his original obscurity , and been awakened to a ...
الصفحة 93
... genius ; it forms the basis , according to the part which predominates , of a general , a states- man , a poet , or a philosopher ; and with- out it no high degree of excellence , in any department of life , contemplative or ac- tive ...
... genius ; it forms the basis , according to the part which predominates , of a general , a states- man , a poet , or a philosopher ; and with- out it no high degree of excellence , in any department of life , contemplative or ac- tive ...
الصفحة 95
... genius , the manners and usages which have cha- racterized different ages , and which pre- sent to a philosophic mind an object far more interesting than wars and politics , he may consult the particular histories and memoirs , or other ...
... genius , the manners and usages which have cha- racterized different ages , and which pre- sent to a philosophic mind an object far more interesting than wars and politics , he may consult the particular histories and memoirs , or other ...
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