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Speaking of one whom he had celebrated , and contrasting the duration of his works with that of his personal existence , Shakspeare adds : “ Your name from hence immortal life shall have , Tho ' I once gone to all the world must die ...
Speaking of one whom he had celebrated , and contrasting the duration of his works with that of his personal existence , Shakspeare adds : “ Your name from hence immortal life shall have , Tho ' I once gone to all the world must die ...
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... if I take this opportunity of suggesting the query ; whether he may not have been occasionally misled , by having assumed , as to me he appeared to have done , the non - existence of any . absolute synonimes in our language ?
... if I take this opportunity of suggesting the query ; whether he may not have been occasionally misled , by having assumed , as to me he appeared to have done , the non - existence of any . absolute synonimes in our language ?
Page 108
... mere delusion of the fancy to conceive the pre - existence of the ideas , in any chain of association , as so many differently colored billiard - balls in contact , so that 108 pation from which Pythagoras by his numeral, ...
... mere delusion of the fancy to conceive the pre - existence of the ideas , in any chain of association , as so many differently colored billiard - balls in contact , so that 108 pation from which Pythagoras by his numeral, ...
Page 109
But if we waive this , and pre - surpose the actual existence of such a disposition ; two cases are possible . Either , every idea has its own nerve and correspondent oscillation , or this is not the case . If the latter be the truth ...
But if we waive this , and pre - surpose the actual existence of such a disposition ; two cases are possible . Either , every idea has its own nerve and correspondent oscillation , or this is not the case . If the latter be the truth ...
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... who in their pretended evidences of a God having “ first demanded organization , as the sole cause and ground of intellect , will then coolly demand the pre - existence of intellect , as the cause and ground - work of organization .
... who in their pretended evidences of a God having “ first demanded organization , as the sole cause and ground of intellect , will then coolly demand the pre - existence of intellect , as the cause and ground - work of organization .
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