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Intellectual Sentiments, Explained by the Study of Sensations, by a Young Lady

Intellectual Sentiments, Explained by the Study of Sensations, by a Young Lady

Sentiments, Intellectual

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1151668303
ISBN13: 9781151668301
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 22
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.05 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1809 Excerpt: ... There is a satisfaction accompanies all the motions of the heart, where fear and hatred are not predominant. Hail, thought sublime! Propitioas power. Nature, a mother kind alike to all, Still grants her bliss at labour's earnest call. Nature has enlightened us with understanding, nor has she limited this to the sensation alone of what passes within us. The qualities of others are likewise the objects of our knowledge, and they give joy or grief, according as they are pleasing or painful to the existence of those who possess them. We cannot help being filled with inward horror when we see persons with troublesome excrescences, broken limbs, or of a cadaverous colour: on the contrary, a placid temperature of the blood is shewn by an agreeable colour of the complexion; and the organs, which without having any thing superfluous, possess every thing requisite for the complete execution of their offices, are characterized by the consonant turn of the features. Beauty changes according to the various climates in which nature has placed us. There is a beauty which shines in the Farnesian Hercules, as well as in the Venus of Medicis: it is even conspicuous in the stern brow of Michel Angelo's Moses: so that for every age and every sex, there is a particular species of ornament assigned to every thing decided beautiful...' Something than beauty dearer should they look, Or on the mind, or mind illumin'd face; Truth, goodness, honour, harmony and love; No climates are productive of regular beauties. There the notion of what is beautiful is not placed in what is really so, but in what has the least deformity. The imaginary beauties supply us with an amusement still more pleasing than those of outward figure; and unless we are touched with envy or hatred, we cannot witho...

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