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... authors of different schools who agree on those points to which my attention has been directed , and have carefully avoided giving any criticisms of my own . I have to express my obligations to Dr. Beddoe , of Clifton , who has most ...
... authors of different schools who agree on those points to which my attention has been directed , and have carefully avoided giving any criticisms of my own . I have to express my obligations to Dr. Beddoe , of Clifton , who has most ...
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... authors and elsewhere . In the first place ( to give an instance ) the general reader is , even now , more accustomed to Celt than to Kelt , and likes it better ; in the second place , I think he has good grounds for his liking . There ...
... authors and elsewhere . In the first place ( to give an instance ) the general reader is , even now , more accustomed to Celt than to Kelt , and likes it better ; in the second place , I think he has good grounds for his liking . There ...
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... authors ? To discard an old and adopt a new system of spelling on pretence of securing accurate pronuncia- tion , is simply to mislead . No one who reads English history supposes Lewis to be an accurate representa- tion of the French ...
... authors ? To discard an old and adopt a new system of spelling on pretence of securing accurate pronuncia- tion , is simply to mislead . No one who reads English history supposes Lewis to be an accurate representa- tion of the French ...
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... authors , would be to incur the suspicion of ignorance . To But the necessity for controversy is not a dis- advantage in any attempt to arrive at the truth . It is by the aid of controversy that evidence may best be brought to light ...
... authors , would be to incur the suspicion of ignorance . To But the necessity for controversy is not a dis- advantage in any attempt to arrive at the truth . It is by the aid of controversy that evidence may best be brought to light ...
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... author of this essay has seen most reason to dissent - the conclusions of which he considers least in accordance with facts - have proved , in almost all instances , suggestive , and have assisted not a little in enabling him to obtain ...
... author of this essay has seen most reason to dissent - the conclusions of which he considers least in accordance with facts - have proved , in almost all instances , suggestive , and have assisted not a little in enabling him to obtain ...
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