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" ... the main object. The importance of this object held his faculties in a state of excitement which was too rigid to be affected by lighter interests, and on which, therefore, the beauties of nature and of art had no power. He had no leisure feeling... "
Mental Discipline: With Reference to the Acquisition and Communication of ... - Page 106
by Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1847 - 320 pages
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Essays in a Series of Letters on the Following Subjects: On a Man's Writing ...

John Foster - 1826 - 290 pages
...faculties in a state of excitement which was too rigid to be affected by lighter interests, and on which therefore the beauties of nature and of art...subordinate feelings lost their separate existence and opeKation, by falling into the grand one. There have not been wanting trivial minds, to mark this as...
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Polemical and Other Miscellanies: Consisting of Articles Originally Inserted ...

Robert Hall - 1827 - 276 pages
...faculties in a state of excitement which was too rigid to be affected by lighter interests, and on which, therefore, the beauties of nature and of art...existence and operation, by falling into the grand one. There have not been wanting trivial minds to mark this as a fault in his character. But the mere men...
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Polemical and Other Miscellanies: Consisting of Articles Originally Inserted ...

Robert Hall - 1827 - 268 pages
...faculties in a state of excitement which was too rigid to be affected by lighter interests, and on which, therefore, the beauties of nature and of art...existence and operation, by falling into the grand one. There have not been wanting trivial minds to mark this as a fault in his character. But the mere men...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...his faculties in a state of excitement which was too rigid to be affected by lighter interests and on which therefore the beauties of nature and of art...existence and operation, by falling into the grand one. There have not been wanting trivial minds, to mark this as a fault in his character. But the mere men...
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Essay on Decision of Character

John Foster - 1830 - 116 pages
...his faculties in a state of excitement which was too rigid to be affected by lighter interests, on which therefore the beauties of nature and of art...existence and operation, by falling into the grand one. There have not been wanting trivial minds, to mark this as a fault in his character. But the mere men...
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Memoirs of Howard, Compiled from His Diary, His Confidential Letters, and ...

James Baldwin Brown - 1831 - 388 pages
...faculties in a state of excitement which was too rigid to be affected by lighter interests, and on which therefore the beauties of nature and of art...existence and operation, by falling into the grand one. There have not been wanting trivial minds, to mark this as a fault in his character. But the mere man...
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The Works of the Rev. Robert Hall, A. M.

Robert Hall - 1832 - 498 pages
...faculties in a state of excitement which was too rigid to be affected by lighter interests, and on which, therefore, the beauties of nature and of art...existence and operation, by falling into the grand one. There have not been wanting trivial minds to mark this as a fault in his character. But the mere men...
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The works of Robert Hall. With a brief memoir of his life, by dr ..., Volume 4

Robert Hall - 1832 - 516 pages
...faculties in a state of excitement " which was too rigid to be affected by lighter " interests, and on which, therefore, the beauties " of nature and of...the " extensive scene which he traversed ; all his sub" ordinate feelings lost their separate existence " and operation, by falling into the grand one....
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Reviews and miscellaneous pieces

Robert Hall - 1833 - 522 pages
...faculties in a state of excitement " which was too rigid to be affected by lighter " interests, and on which, therefore, the beauties " of nature and of...the " extensive scene which he traversed ; all his sub" ordinate feelings lost their separate existence " and operation, by falling into the grand one....
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The Works of the Rev. Robert Hall, A.M.

Robert Hall - 1833 - 504 pages
...faculties in a state of excitement which was too rigid to be affected by lighter interests, and on which, therefore, the beauties of nature and of art...feeling which he could spare, to be diverted among the,innumerable varieties of the extensive scene which he traversed ; all his subordinate feelings...
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