His aim, Akenside tells us in the preface, was " not so much to give formal precepts, or enter into the way of direct argumentation, as, by exhibiting the most engaging prospects of nature, to enlarge and harmonize the imagination, and by that means insensibly dispose the minds of men to a similar taste and habit of thinking in religion, morals and civil life ".
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Such books were often read by the common people, including such children as the one described by the 18th century essayist Richard Steele : " He would tell you the mismanagement of St . George for being the champion of England; and by this means had his thoughts insensibly moulded into the notions of discretion, virtue, and honour . " After the mid 18th century interest in " Beves " began to decline, and the printer of a 1775 reprint says the story is " very little known ".
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As " The New Yorker " 1974 review describes it, " Cinda Firestone s quiet picture uses horrifying film footage : shots taken through state troopers'telescopic rifle lenses; musings by inmates which sometimes sputter into anger against a world that finds descriptions of Attica incredible; riot quellers insensibly proud of their skill with weapons, showing off their prowess before the commission of inquiry . & If Attica disturbed our slumber for a mere month or two, one of the qualities of this trumpet call of a film is that it makes the disturbance enduring ."
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The character explains that Rousseau was showing the " great principle that nature made man happy and good, but that society depraves him and makes him miserable . . . . vice and error, foreign to his constitution, enter it from outside and insensibly change him . " The character describes the " Discourse on the Arts and Sciences " as an effort " to destroy that magical illusion which gives us a stupid admiration for the instruments of our misfortunes and [ an attempt ] to correct that deceptive assessment that makes us honor pernicious talents and scorn useful virtues.
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The heart is particularly deceitful on this one thing . " Jonathan Edwards said " [ r ] emember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was, and lies lowest in the foundation of Satan's whole building, and is the most difficultly rooted out, and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts, and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility ."
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According to Peirce, synechism flatly denies Parmenides'claim that " Being is, and non-being is nothing " and declares instead that " being is a matter of more or less, so as to merge insensibly into nothing . " Peirce argued that the view that " no experiential question can be answered with absolute certainty " ( fallibilism ) implies the view that " the object has an imperfect and qualified existence " and implies, furthermore, the view that there is no absolute distinction between a phenomenon and its substrate, and among various persons, and between waking and sleeping; one who takes on a role in creation's drama identifies to that extent with creation's author.
