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... error has usually more power to move human nature than philosophical truth . Hence , also , we may see the extreme folly of that conflict in which a false philosophy sometimes ventures to en- gage with religion , which it tauntingly ...
... error has usually more power to move human nature than philosophical truth . Hence , also , we may see the extreme folly of that conflict in which a false philosophy sometimes ventures to en- gage with religion , which it tauntingly ...
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... error they will be apt , as we say of slovenly servants , to make more work than they save ; at all events , their work requires to be done over again , and the practical philosopher is just where he was . be contented to conjecture ...
... error they will be apt , as we say of slovenly servants , to make more work than they save ; at all events , their work requires to be done over again , and the practical philosopher is just where he was . be contented to conjecture ...
Side 35
... errors of Descartes ' account of the modes in which the universe may be supposed to have been evolved , the idea of that evolution itself as a methodical progression development from the operation of vast mechanical , chemical , and ...
... errors of Descartes ' account of the modes in which the universe may be supposed to have been evolved , the idea of that evolution itself as a methodical progression development from the operation of vast mechanical , chemical , and ...
Side 65
... error of Descartes , on the other hand , that he reversed the proportions assigned to the influence of this predominant element in Bacon's method ; and believed that man could con- struct his premises and deduce his conclusions from ...
... error of Descartes , on the other hand , that he reversed the proportions assigned to the influence of this predominant element in Bacon's method ; and believed that man could con- struct his premises and deduce his conclusions from ...
Side 66
... error in Bacon had he ever intended to imply that ' antici- pation ' of some results rather than others , was not to preside over all experiment and observation ; without which , indeed , in the vast majority of instances , it were ...
... error in Bacon had he ever intended to imply that ' antici- pation ' of some results rather than others , was not to preside over all experiment and observation ; without which , indeed , in the vast majority of instances , it were ...
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Side 58 - He who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? You, Mr.
Side 17 - Encyclopaedia of Geography ; comprising a complete Description of the Earth : Exhibiting its Relation to the Heavenly Bodies, its Physical Structure, the Natural History of each Country, and the Industry, Commerce, Political Institutions, and Civil and Social State of All Nations. Second Edition ; with 82 Maps, and upwards of 1,000 other Woodcuts. 8vo. price 60s. Neale.
Side 277 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and in'tense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Side 7 - The Englishman's Greek Concordance of the New Testament : Being an Attempt at a Verbal Connexion between the Greek and the English Texts ; including a Concordance to the Proper Names, with Indexes, GreekEnglish and English-Greek. New Edition, with a new Index. Royal 8vo. price 42s. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance...
Side 13 - Loudon's Encyclopaedia of Agriculture: comprising the Laying-out, Improvement, and Management of Landed Property, and the Cultivation and Economy of the Productions of Agriculture. With 1,100 Woodcuts. 8vo. 31s. 6d. Loudon's Encyclopedia of Gardening : comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, and Landscape Gardening.
Side 20 - Readings for a Month preparatory to Confirmation : Compiled from the Works of Writers of the Early and of the English Church. Fcp.
Side 14 - A General Dictionary of Geography, Descriptive, Physical, Statistical, and Historical ; forming a complete Gazetteer of the World. By A. KEITH JOHNSTON, FRSE 8vo. 31s. 6d. M'Culloch's Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of the various Countries, Places, and principal Natural Objects in the World.
Side 295 - Catholic England has been restored to its orbit in the ecclesiastical firmament, from which its light had long vanished, and begins now anew its course of regularly adjusted action round the centre of unity, the source of jurisdiction, of light and of vigour.
Side 93 - I shall not at present meddle with the physical consideration of the mind, or trouble myself to examine wherein its essence consists, or by what motions of our spirits, or alterations of our bodies, we come to have any sensation by our organs, or any ideas in our understandings; and whether those ideas do, in their formation, any or all of them, depend on matter or no.
Side 19 - SIR EDWARD SEAWARD'S NARRATIVE OF HIS SHIPWRECK, and consequent Discovery of certain Islands in the Caribbean Sea: with a detail of many extraordinary and highly interesting Events in his Life, from 1733 to 1749. as written in his own Diary. Edited by Miss JANE PORTER.