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... effect , these collaborators - in - fantasy are the only advantage the rich enjoy over the poor . Thales has only his own imagination to bend ' ev'ry bush ' to his desire . With the patron , ' ev'ry wild absurdity ' and ' each object ...
... effect , these collaborators - in - fantasy are the only advantage the rich enjoy over the poor . Thales has only his own imagination to bend ' ev'ry bush ' to his desire . With the patron , ' ev'ry wild absurdity ' and ' each object ...
Page 63
... effect upon himself . Yet , at the same time , the rational balance of the passage , the clarity of paradox and antithesis by which the moral contradictions of the offence are spelled out , also produces an opposing effect . The balance ...
... effect upon himself . Yet , at the same time , the rational balance of the passage , the clarity of paradox and antithesis by which the moral contradictions of the offence are spelled out , also produces an opposing effect . The balance ...
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... effect ... is to raise up a simple idea to an equality with our impressions , and bestow on it a like influence on the passions . This effect it can only have by making an idea approach an impression in force and vivacity . " Hume was ...
... effect ... is to raise up a simple idea to an equality with our impressions , and bestow on it a like influence on the passions . This effect it can only have by making an idea approach an impression in force and vivacity . " Hume was ...
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surly virtue and pleasing dream | 4 |
The Vanity of Human Wishes | 42 |
those that aspire to the name | 57 |
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