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... human race which philosophers confer by striking hard against each other ; just as , how full soever of sparks a flint may be , they might lurk concealed in the flint till doomsday , if the flint were not hit by the steel . Sir Peter ...
... human race which philosophers confer by striking hard against each other ; just as , how full soever of sparks a flint may be , they might lurk concealed in the flint till doomsday , if the flint were not hit by the steel . Sir Peter ...
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... human being could not exhibit if he were leaving the world in- stead of entering it . " Hem ! " said Sir Peter to himself on re- gaining the solitude of his library ; " a philo- sopher who contributes a new inhabitant to this vale of ...
... human being could not exhibit if he were leaving the world in- stead of entering it . " Hem ! " said Sir Peter to himself on re- gaining the solitude of his library ; " a philo- sopher who contributes a new inhabitant to this vale of ...
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... humanity . During the earlier years of childhood he spoke as little as if he had been prematurely trained in the school of Pythagoras . But he evidently spoke the less in order to reflect the more . He ob- served closely and pondered ...
... humanity . During the earlier years of childhood he spoke as little as if he had been prematurely trained in the school of Pythagoras . But he evidently spoke the less in order to reflect the more . He ob- served closely and pondered ...
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... Human Under- standing , and was prepared to dispute with that philosopher upon the doctrine of innate ideas . Quoth Kenelm , gravely- " A want is an idea ; and if , as soon as I was born , I felt the want of food and knew at once where ...
... Human Under- standing , and was prepared to dispute with that philosopher upon the doctrine of innate ideas . Quoth Kenelm , gravely- " A want is an idea ; and if , as soon as I was born , I felt the want of food and knew at once where ...
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... had never experienced love , but he had read a good deal about it , and that passion seemed to him an unaccountable aberration of human reason , and an ignominious surrender of the equa- nimity of thought KENELM CHILLINGLY . $ 3.
... had never experienced love , but he had read a good deal about it , and that passion seemed to him an unaccountable aberration of human reason , and an ignominious surrender of the equa- nimity of thought KENELM CHILLINGLY . $ 3.
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