The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 136A. Constable, 1872 |
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... means of knowing in any detail . But two or three autobiographical fragments in the Commonplace Book throw some ... mean that even in his earlier years he was of an inquiring turn of mind , not given to take things on trust , but ...
... means of knowing in any detail . But two or three autobiographical fragments in the Commonplace Book throw some ... mean that even in his earlier years he was of an inquiring turn of mind , not given to take things on trust , but ...
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... means of the Commonplace Book , to trace in outline his course of study , and follow the movements of his thought , especially during the earlier years of his residence . The subjects that chiefly attracted his atten- tion , partly from ...
... means of the Commonplace Book , to trace in outline his course of study , and follow the movements of his thought , especially during the earlier years of his residence . The subjects that chiefly attracted his atten- tion , partly from ...
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... means on their notice , Berkeley gives a curiously simple illustration of the art or artifice of persuasion in which he afterwards became so great a proficient - that of seeming to harmonise with those he addresses , and humouring them ...
... means on their notice , Berkeley gives a curiously simple illustration of the art or artifice of persuasion in which he afterwards became so great a proficient - that of seeming to harmonise with those he addresses , and humouring them ...
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... means a mental image or picture , of the fluent and infinitesimal quantities which they assume in their reasonings , and virtually affirm to be real . Then again , the Cartesian maxim , that we know directly only our own thoughts , the ...
... means a mental image or picture , of the fluent and infinitesimal quantities which they assume in their reasonings , and virtually affirm to be real . Then again , the Cartesian maxim , that we know directly only our own thoughts , the ...
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... means of sciences the most solid and well - established . This ought to lead wise men to engage in these only so far as they may contribute to that end , and to make them the exercise only , and not the occupation , of their mental ...
... means of sciences the most solid and well - established . This ought to lead wise men to engage in these only so far as they may contribute to that end , and to make them the exercise only , and not the occupation , of their mental ...
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Page 289 - Body and Blood of Christ are verily and indeed " taken and received by the faithful in the Lord's
Page 342 - Be copy now to men of grosser blood, And teach them how to war! — And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth your breeding : which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
Page 491 - Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Page 349 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Page 488 - A SYSTEM of SURGERY, Theoretical and Practical. In Treatises by Various Authors.
Page 352 - Even like an o'ergrown lion in a cave, That goes not out to prey...
Page 288 - Christ was the word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it ; And what the word did make it, That I believe and take it.
Page 290 - THE body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life ! Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee ; and feed on him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving.
Page 287 - The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts, then springs, as broke from bonds, And rampant shakes his brinded mane...
Page 356 - O Hamlet, speak no more. Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul; And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct.