Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few WordsPorter & Coates, 1871 - 504 sider |
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Side iv
... truth with novelty , and all of them with liberality- who is sufficient for these things ? a very serious question ; but it is one which authors had much bet- ter propose to themselves before publication , than have proposed to them by ...
... truth with novelty , and all of them with liberality- who is sufficient for these things ? a very serious question ; but it is one which authors had much bet- ter propose to themselves before publication , than have proposed to them by ...
Side vi
... truth may prevail in the church , and integrity in the state , and that in both , the old adage may be verified , that the men of prin- ciple may be the principal men . ' Knowledge is in- deed as necessary as light , and in this coming ...
... truth may prevail in the church , and integrity in the state , and that in both , the old adage may be verified , that the men of prin- ciple may be the principal men . ' Knowledge is in- deed as necessary as light , and in this coming ...
Side vii
... truth and novelty . Their union is like that of steam and of fire , which nothing can overcome . Truth and novelty , when united , must overcome the whole superincumbent pressure of error and of prejudice , whatever be its weight : and ...
... truth and novelty . Their union is like that of steam and of fire , which nothing can overcome . Truth and novelty , when united , must overcome the whole superincumbent pressure of error and of prejudice , whatever be its weight : and ...
Side viii
... truth , we should have a glo- rious conflagration , if all who cannot put fire into their works , would only consent to put their works in- to the fire . But this is an age of economy , as well as of ilumination , and a considerate ...
... truth , we should have a glo- rious conflagration , if all who cannot put fire into their works , would only consent to put their works in- to the fire . But this is an age of economy , as well as of ilumination , and a considerate ...
Side ix
... truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so : and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects fo : the sunbeam , when it condenses its brightness , in order to increase its force . How far the following ...
... truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so : and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects fo : the sunbeam , when it condenses its brightness , in order to increase its force . How far the following ...
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