Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few WordsPorter & Coates, 1871 - 504 sider |
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Side iv
... ignorant , and know that I am so , I am silent . That Grecian gave a better reason for his taciturnity , than most authors for their loquacity , who observed , ' What was to the purpose I could not say ; and what was not to the purpose ...
... ignorant , and know that I am so , I am silent . That Grecian gave a better reason for his taciturnity , than most authors for their loquacity , who observed , ' What was to the purpose I could not say ; and what was not to the purpose ...
Side x
... ignorance as the sea . On points of the high- est interest , the moment we quit the light of revelation , we shall find that Platonism itself is intimately con . nected with Pyrrhonism , and the deepest inquiry with the darkest doubt ...
... ignorance as the sea . On points of the high- est interest , the moment we quit the light of revelation , we shall find that Platonism itself is intimately con . nected with Pyrrhonism , and the deepest inquiry with the darkest doubt ...
Side xiii
... ignorance as to those sciences to which he has never been introduced . But if you propose to teach him any thing new con- cerning himself , the world , and those who live in it , the case is widely altered . He finds that he has been ...
... ignorance as to those sciences to which he has never been introduced . But if you propose to teach him any thing new con- cerning himself , the world , and those who live in it , the case is widely altered . He finds that he has been ...
Side xiv
... ignorant of those things that are so constantly and so closely around us , and about us . he that runs , he thinks , may read that lucid volume whose pages are days , whose characters are men . But too close a contiguity is as inimical ...
... ignorant of those things that are so constantly and so closely around us , and about us . he that runs , he thinks , may read that lucid volume whose pages are days , whose characters are men . But too close a contiguity is as inimical ...
Side 4
... ignorant of the cause of those circumstances which then astonished us , but also of the causes of many other ... ignorance of the means by which they were produced . Also , that I have affixed a seal , with a crest , to every ...
... ignorant of the cause of those circumstances which then astonished us , but also of the causes of many other ... ignorance of the means by which they were produced . Also , that I have affixed a seal , with a crest , to every ...
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