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To these men , more than to any other , is the world indebted for the demolition of venerable error - the emancipa- tion from ancient prejudices - the breaking - up of those stereotyped forms of thought in which philoso- phy had so long ...
To these men , more than to any other , is the world indebted for the demolition of venerable error - the emancipa- tion from ancient prejudices - the breaking - up of those stereotyped forms of thought in which philoso- phy had so long ...
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... as it may sound ) is not always to be measured by the amount of truth they embody . There are authors who , in spite of some enormous errors ( supposing those errors to be either morally innocuous , or com- pletely exploded ...
... as it may sound ) is not always to be measured by the amount of truth they embody . There are authors who , in spite of some enormous errors ( supposing those errors to be either morally innocuous , or com- pletely exploded ...
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... for I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors , that , as it ap- peared to me , I had derived no other benefit from the pursuit of knowledge than this that I had thoroughly discovered my own ignorance .
... for I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors , that , as it ap- peared to me , I had derived no other benefit from the pursuit of knowledge than this that I had thoroughly discovered my own ignorance .
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... and thus I gradually liberated myself from many errors which have sufficient power to darken our natural light and incapacitate us from listening to reason . But after I had employed some years in thus studying the book of the world ...
... and thus I gradually liberated myself from many errors which have sufficient power to darken our natural light and incapacitate us from listening to reason . But after I had employed some years in thus studying the book of the world ...
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Nothing is more amusing than the prudential directions to Regius , who had embraced Cartesian principles , and felt inclined , as Descartes thought , to hazard a too violent opposition to the venerable errors of the older philosophy * ...
Nothing is more amusing than the prudential directions to Regius , who had embraced Cartesian principles , and felt inclined , as Descartes thought , to hazard a too violent opposition to the venerable errors of the older philosophy * ...
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| Titel | Essays, Selected from Contributions to the Edinburgh Review: Supplementary vol Bind 3 af Essays, Selected from Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, Henry Rogers |
| Forfatter | Henry Rogers |
| Udgiver | Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855 |
| Oprindeligt fra | Oxford University |
| Digitaliseret | 18. maj 2007 |
| Eksporter henvisning | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |