The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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He has devoted his life to the pursuit of abstract and general truths , and to those studies “ That waft a thought from Indus to the Pole "and has never mixed himself up with personal intrigues or party politics .
He has devoted his life to the pursuit of abstract and general truths , and to those studies “ That waft a thought from Indus to the Pole "and has never mixed himself up with personal intrigues or party politics .
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To shew how little the refinements of taste or fancy enter into our author's system , he proposed at one time to cut down these beautiful trees , to convert the garden where he had breathed the air of Truth and Heaven for near half a ...
To shew how little the refinements of taste or fancy enter into our author's system , he proposed at one time to cut down these beautiful trees , to convert the garden where he had breathed the air of Truth and Heaven for near half a ...
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not struck out any great leading principle or parent - truth , from which a number of others might be deduced ; nor has he enriched the common and established stock of intelligence with original observations , like pearls thrown into ...
not struck out any great leading principle or parent - truth , from which a number of others might be deduced ; nor has he enriched the common and established stock of intelligence with original observations , like pearls thrown into ...
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... stages in its progress , and “ all appliances and means to boot , ” which can raise it to a partial conformity to truth and good ( the utmost it is capable of JEREMY BENTHAM . 11.
... stages in its progress , and “ all appliances and means to boot , ” which can raise it to a partial conformity to truth and good ( the utmost it is capable of JEREMY BENTHAM . 11.
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truth and good ( the utmost it is capable of ) and bring it into a tolerable harmony with the universe . By aiming at too much , by dismissing collateral aids , by extending itself to the farthest verge of the conceivable and possible ...
truth and good ( the utmost it is capable of ) and bring it into a tolerable harmony with the universe . By aiming at too much , by dismissing collateral aids , by extending itself to the farthest verge of the conceivable and possible ...
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