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... mind , and to supply him with rational and use- ful entertainment . They open a field of investigation peculiar to them- selves . All that relates to beauty , harmony , grandeur , and elegance ; all that can soothe the mind , gratify ...
... mind , and to supply him with rational and use- ful entertainment . They open a field of investigation peculiar to them- selves . All that relates to beauty , harmony , grandeur , and elegance ; all that can soothe the mind , gratify ...
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... mind after the toils of the intellect , and the labours of abstract study ; and they gradual- ly raise it above the attachments of sense , and prepare it for the enjoy- ments of virtue . So consonant is this to experience , that in the ...
... mind after the toils of the intellect , and the labours of abstract study ; and they gradual- ly raise it above the attachments of sense , and prepare it for the enjoy- ments of virtue . So consonant is this to experience , that in the ...
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... mind those high ideas , which attract the admiration of ages ; and if this spirit be necessary to produce the most distinguished efforts of eloquence , it must be necessary also to our relishing them with pro- per taste and feeling . On ...
... mind those high ideas , which attract the admiration of ages ; and if this spirit be necessary to produce the most distinguished efforts of eloquence , it must be necessary also to our relishing them with pro- per taste and feeling . On ...
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... mind , the inaccurate use of words is to be carefully avoided , it must not be in- ferred from what I have said , that reason is entirely excluded from the exertions of taste . Though taste , beyond doubt , be ultimately founded on a ...
... mind , the inaccurate use of words is to be carefully avoided , it must not be in- ferred from what I have said , that reason is entirely excluded from the exertions of taste . Though taste , beyond doubt , be ultimately founded on a ...
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... mind receives its improvement . In its perfect state , it is undoubtedly the result both of nature and of art . It supposes our natural sense of beauty to be refined by frequent attention to the most beautiful objects , and at the same ...
... mind receives its improvement . In its perfect state , it is undoubtedly the result both of nature and of art . It supposes our natural sense of beauty to be refined by frequent attention to the most beautiful objects , and at the same ...
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Page 422 - He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Page 418 - Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name : bring an offering, and come into his courts. O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness : fear before him, all the earth.
Page 423 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : and the sea saith, It is not with me.
Page 121 - OUR sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.
Page 206 - A man of a polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving. He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often feels a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.
Page 157 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, So that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, And the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Page 43 - God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off...
Page 169 - All the kings of the nations, even all of them, Lie in glory, every one in his own house. But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch...
Page 418 - O SING unto the LORD a new song: Sing unto the LORD, all the earth.
Page 168 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...