The Philadelphia Book: Or, Specimens of Metropolitan LiteratureKey & Biddle, 1836 - 380 páginas |
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... taste , and raise merit from obscu- rity . Without arrogating to myself these qualities , I shall endeavour to introduce to the nation a work , which , though of considerable elegance , has been strangely overlooked by the generality of ...
... taste , and raise merit from obscu- rity . Without arrogating to myself these qualities , I shall endeavour to introduce to the nation a work , which , though of considerable elegance , has been strangely overlooked by the generality of ...
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... taste in the fine arts , and a liberal atten- tion to every institution calculated to promote it , we should not overlook some of its most interesting uses to society . Every man who is a member of that society and has influence and ...
... taste in the fine arts , and a liberal atten- tion to every institution calculated to promote it , we should not overlook some of its most interesting uses to society . Every man who is a member of that society and has influence and ...
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... taste . Can a being capable of such sublime contemplations , and commanding such high sources of pleasure , drop from its dignity into some sink of vice , or be lost in the mazes of sensual dissipation ? When speaking of the morality of ...
... taste . Can a being capable of such sublime contemplations , and commanding such high sources of pleasure , drop from its dignity into some sink of vice , or be lost in the mazes of sensual dissipation ? When speaking of the morality of ...
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... taste in the fine arts and the moral sense go hand in hand . " May I be in- dulged in a further extract from this distinguished critic and moralist ? " Mathematical and metaphysical reason- ings , " he says , " have no tendency to ...
... taste in the fine arts and the moral sense go hand in hand . " May I be in- dulged in a further extract from this distinguished critic and moralist ? " Mathematical and metaphysical reason- ings , " he says , " have no tendency to ...
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... taste of which every man has from nature a portion , to derive from these expensive possessions every pleasure they can be- stow . Thus it is that wealth spreads her bounty , even if reluctant , and is compelled , while she gratifies ...
... taste of which every man has from nature a portion , to derive from these expensive possessions every pleasure they can be- stow . Thus it is that wealth spreads her bounty , even if reluctant , and is compelled , while she gratifies ...
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