The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits ..., Том 1H. Colburn, 1825 - 424 стор. |
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... reason is , that our author's influence is purely intellectual . He has devoted his life to the pursuit of abstract and gene- ral truths , and to those studies— " That waft a thought from Indus to the Pole " - and has never mixed ...
... reason is , that our author's influence is purely intellectual . He has devoted his life to the pursuit of abstract and gene- ral truths , and to those studies— " That waft a thought from Indus to the Pole " - and has never mixed ...
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... reason , and dull , plodding , technical calculation . The gentleman is himself a capital logician ; and he has been led by this circumstance to consider man as a logical animal . We fear this view of the matter will hardly hold water ...
... reason , and dull , plodding , technical calculation . The gentleman is himself a capital logician ; and he has been led by this circumstance to consider man as a logical animal . We fear this view of the matter will hardly hold water ...
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... reason teaches us to be possible , could our hands reach as far as our thoughts and wishes , we might then busy ourselves to advantage with the Hottentots , or hold intimate converse with the inhabitants of the Moon ; but being as we ...
... reason teaches us to be possible , could our hands reach as far as our thoughts and wishes , we might then busy ourselves to advantage with the Hottentots , or hold intimate converse with the inhabitants of the Moon ; but being as we ...
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... reason would afford but a feeble resistance to violence and wrong . The will , which is necessary to give consistency and promptness to our good intentions , cannot extend so much can- dour and courtesy to the antagonist principle of ...
... reason would afford but a feeble resistance to violence and wrong . The will , which is necessary to give consistency and promptness to our good intentions , cannot extend so much can- dour and courtesy to the antagonist principle of ...
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... reason : criminals , for whose con- troul laws are made , are a set of desperadoes , go- verned only by their passions . What wonder that so little progress has been made towards a mutual un- derstanding between the two parties ! They ...
... reason : criminals , for whose con- troul laws are made , are a set of desperadoes , go- verned only by their passions . What wonder that so little progress has been made towards a mutual un- derstanding between the two parties ! They ...
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