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Jn ESSAY on the ORIGIN and NATURE of our IDEA 

 oftbe SUBLIME. By the Reverend GEO'SiG'E MILLER, 

 F.T.C.D and M.R.I. A. 



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HE various opinions which have been entertained concerning Read July 



the origin and nature of our idea of the fubhme afford a ftrong 

 proof of the difficulty of penetrating into our own minds. We 

 are not only urged to the inquiry by that fcientific curiofity 

 which prompts us to analyze our modes of thinking, but elegance 

 of tafle confpires to engage us in a refearch which has for its 

 objed all that is great or elevated, and yet the origin and nature 

 of the fublime are ftill fubjeds of controverfy. According to 

 Longinus, the fublime confifls in a proud elevation of mind ; 

 according to the ingenious author of the Philofophical Inquiry into 

 the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, it confifts 

 in terror ; Dodor Prieftly places it in an awful ftillnefs ; and Lord 

 Kaims derives it from the magnitude or elevation of vifible 

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