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Page 17
... doubt whether this be a well - founded expectation . We see that during the last two hundred and fifty years the human mind has been in the highest degree active , that it has made great advances in every branch of natural philosophy ...
... doubt whether this be a well - founded expectation . We see that during the last two hundred and fifty years the human mind has been in the highest degree active , that it has made great advances in every branch of natural philosophy ...
Page 44
... doubts whether he has not committed the unpar- donable sin . He imputes every wild fancy that springs up in his mind to the whisper of a fiend . His sleep is broken by dreams of the great judgment - seat , the open books , and the ...
... doubts whether he has not committed the unpar- donable sin . He imputes every wild fancy that springs up in his mind to the whisper of a fiend . His sleep is broken by dreams of the great judgment - seat , the open books , and the ...
Page 57
... doubt that her power over the hearts and minds of men is now greater far than it was when the Encyclopædia and the Philosophical Dictionary appeared . surely remarkable that neither the moral revolution of the eighteenth century , nor ...
... doubt that her power over the hearts and minds of men is now greater far than it was when the Encyclopædia and the Philosophical Dictionary appeared . surely remarkable that neither the moral revolution of the eighteenth century , nor ...
Page 59
... doubt whether it is possible to deduce anything as to an author's character from his works . Yet surely people do not keep a tame steam - engine to write their books ; and if those books were really written by a man , he must have been ...
... doubt whether it is possible to deduce anything as to an author's character from his works . Yet surely people do not keep a tame steam - engine to write their books ; and if those books were really written by a man , he must have been ...
Page 61
... doubt at work , but it is not stirred by what is external . Perhaps it is the internal activity of mind that overmasters the perceptive power . Any- how there might have been an émeute in the street and he would not have known it ...
... doubt at work , but it is not stirred by what is external . Perhaps it is the internal activity of mind that overmasters the perceptive power . Any- how there might have been an émeute in the street and he would not have known it ...
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