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... instance a joke about explanations has been taken for fact , and ex- planations given of it . Bacon , or Selden , or some such dry humorist , put forth the sarcasm of the old man who took Tenterden steeple to be the cause of the Goodwin ...
... instance a joke about explanations has been taken for fact , and ex- planations given of it . Bacon , or Selden , or some such dry humorist , put forth the sarcasm of the old man who took Tenterden steeple to be the cause of the Goodwin ...
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... instance to take * Why do not these people take to writing doctrinal novels ? There is a satirist who would be an odious prig if he were to come forward in person , with nothing but his infallible judgments , and his sneers at public ...
... instance to take * Why do not these people take to writing doctrinal novels ? There is a satirist who would be an odious prig if he were to come forward in person , with nothing but his infallible judgments , and his sneers at public ...
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... instance , and the thing is so common , and done by so many at once , and with such an air of every - day habit , that we hardly see what is done , even when we look , if unpractised in the kind of exami- nation necessary . A person not ...
... instance , and the thing is so common , and done by so many at once , and with such an air of every - day habit , that we hardly see what is done , even when we look , if unpractised in the kind of exami- nation necessary . A person not ...
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... instance well illustrates the inconsistency which prevails far and wide among those who find first princi- ples in the fourth source . * The point of my remark may be illustrated by a very short dialogue which is reported to have taken ...
... instance well illustrates the inconsistency which prevails far and wide among those who find first princi- ples in the fourth source . * The point of my remark may be illustrated by a very short dialogue which is reported to have taken ...
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... instance of the way in which bias * Privately , of course , for our law , though it gives such an object the honours of a trial for high treason , does not condescend to solicit an explanation of ' the principles on which he acted . ' b ...
... instance of the way in which bias * Privately , of course , for our law , though it gives such an object the honours of a trial for high treason , does not condescend to solicit an explanation of ' the principles on which he acted . ' b ...
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