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" The two senses to which all objects first address themselves are the sight and the touch. These never examine farther than the colour, the shape, the size, and whatever other qualities dwell, or are drawn by art upon the outward of bodies ; and then comes... "
The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift ... - Página 226
por Jonathan Swift - 1784
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A Tale of a Tub: To which is Added The Battle of the Books, and the ...

Jonathan Swift - 1920 - 500 páginas
...the Sight and the Touch ; • These never examine farther than the Colour, the Shape, the Size, and whatever other Qualities dwell, or are drawn by Art upon the Outward of Bodies ; and then comes Reason officiously, with Tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing, \ offering to...
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A Treasury of English Prose

Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 272 páginas
...sight and the touch; these never examine farther than the colour, the shape, the size, and whatever qualities dwell or are drawn by art upon the outward of bodies; and then comes reason officiously with tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing; offering to demonstrate,...
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A Tale of a Tub: To which is Added The Battle of the Books, and the ...

Jonathan Swift - 1920 - 506 páginas
...Qualities dwell, or are drawn by Art upon the Outward of Bodies ; and then comes Rea§o»- officiously, with Tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing, offering to demonstrate, that they are not of the same consistence quite thro'. Now, I take all this to be the...
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A Treasury of English Prose

Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 264 páginas
...whatever qualities dwell or are drawn by art upon the outward of bodies; and then comes reason officiously with tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing; offering to demonstrate, that they are not of the same consistence quite through. Now I take all this to be the...
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A Critical History of English Literature: The Restoration to 1800, Volumen3

David Daiches - 1979 - 336 páginas
...be content with what we can know by sight and touch only, and ignore reason which comes "officiously with tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing, offering to demonstrate, that they are not of the same consistence quite through." Let us therefore be content...
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When Words Lose Their Meaning: Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language ...

James Boyd White - 1985 - 400 páginas
...are the Sight and the Touch; These never examine farther than the Colour, the Shape, the Size, and whatever other Qualities dwell, or are drawn by Art upon the Outward of Bodies; and then comes Reason officiously, with Tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing, offering to demonstrate,...
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Joseph Conrad and the Fictions of Skepticism

Mark Wollaeger - 1990 - 288 páginas
...for nothing." Insight requires violence: if surfaces do not satisfy, "then comes reason officiously with tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing, offering to demonstrate, that they are not of the same consistence quite through." The ambivalence is apparent...
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Edmund Burke: The Enlightenment and Revolution

Peter James Stanlis - 1958 - 292 páginas
...life are destroyed by the probing thrusts of analytical reason: And then comes Reason officiously, with Tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing, offering to demonstrate, that they are not of the same consistence quite thro'. Now, I take all this to be the...
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Vision and Textuality

Stephen W. Melville, Bill Readings - 1995 - 418 páginas
...are the Sight and the Touch; These never examine farther than the Colour, the Shape, the Size, and whatever other Qualities dwell, or are drawn by Art upon the Outward of Bodies; and then comes Reason officiously, with Tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing, offering to demonstrate,...
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The Skeptical Sublime: Aesthetic Ideology in Pope and the Tory Satirists

James Noggle - 2001 - 288 páginas
...revealing the dogmatically empty pretensions of the other. 15 Lofty reason descends into the material, "with Tools for cutting, and opening, and mangling, and piercing, offering to demonstrate, that [bodies] are not of the same consistence quite thro'" (173), coming to subvert its...
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