A manual of essays, selected from various authors, Band 21818 |
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... endeavour to correct and amend the common nature , and to represent it as it was at first created , without fault , either in colour or lineament . This IDEA , which we may call the goddess of painting and of sculpture , descends upon ...
... endeavour to correct and amend the common nature , and to represent it as it was at first created , without fault , either in colour or lineament . This IDEA , which we may call the goddess of painting and of sculpture , descends upon ...
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... endeavour to acquire philosophical polite- ness ; and let us receive it as a maxim , that with- out reason no one can be a fine gentleman . At the same time reason , like a fop's under - waist- coat , may be worn out of sight , and ...
... endeavour to acquire philosophical polite- ness ; and let us receive it as a maxim , that with- out reason no one can be a fine gentleman . At the same time reason , like a fop's under - waist- coat , may be worn out of sight , and ...
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... endeavour to place his happiness on such objects as chiefly depend on himself : and that is not to be attained so much by any other means as by this delicacy of sentiment . When a man is possessed of that talent , he is more happy by ...
... endeavour to place his happiness on such objects as chiefly depend on himself : and that is not to be attained so much by any other means as by this delicacy of sentiment . When a man is possessed of that talent , he is more happy by ...
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... endeavour to find it out in Guido's St. Michael , than in Mrs. P.'s face , if that ever had any anger in it ; because in the pictured angel , we have full leisure to consider it ; but in the living one , it would be too transient and ...
... endeavour to find it out in Guido's St. Michael , than in Mrs. P.'s face , if that ever had any anger in it ; because in the pictured angel , we have full leisure to consider it ; but in the living one , it would be too transient and ...
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... endeavour to slink out of the post which is assigned us in this beautiful disposition of things , whereof even our sufferings make a necessary part . Let us address ourselves to God who governs all , as Cleanthes did in those admirable ...
... endeavour to slink out of the post which is assigned us in this beautiful disposition of things , whereof even our sufferings make a necessary part . Let us address ourselves to God who governs all , as Cleanthes did in those admirable ...
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