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Containg, Firft, An Argument proving the Perception which Mankind have by all the Senfes of Daemons, Genii or familiar Spirits, and of the feveral Species of them, both good and bad.
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: Of York, Mariner. Who Lived Eight ... 1790
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Will any Man in his fober Senfes. dare to maintain fucb a Paradox? —
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Senfes are well, and Lingua is proved guilty: up, up, up; L never knew hira fo faft. alkep in ray life.
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To conceive the vaft Extent of thefe Words, and the prodigious Diftances by which the various Species of Pleafures and Pains are feparated, we need only recolleft, that Pleafures and Pains arrive to the Mind, by every one of the Senfes.
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It is fufRcient,. in etymological Enquiries, if the Senfes of kindred Words be founds fuch as rnay eafily pafs into each other, or fuch as may both be referred to one general Idea*
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This 18 fpccious, but not always pra£UcabIe; kin* dred Senfes may be fo interwoven,. that the Perplex* ity cannot be difentangled, nor any Reafon be af*. figned why one fliould be ranged before the other.
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When the radical Idea branches out into parallel Ramifications, how can a confccutive Series be form - cd of Senfes in their Nature collateral?
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The Senfes look on, while the fight palTes, perceiving as much as hi7nmediately prefent, which they report with tolerable accuracy io the Soul's fuperior powers.
Hermes; or, A philosophical inquiry concerning universal grammar 1771
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That the Words are capable of either of the Senfes: but the Notation of the Word icT/of enclines more to the latter,/.
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It may feem that he is not fo, and if we will hearken to the fallacious Reports of our Senfes and Imaginations, they will tell us, that this is to enter into a dry, barren, difconfolate and withering Condition, atfd will reprefent it as a ftate of horrible Privation, as a difmal Solitude.
Letters Concerning the Love of God, Between the Author of the Proposal to the Ladies, and Mr ... 1705
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