For he that shall well consider the errors and obscurity, the mistakes and confusion, that are spread in the world by an ill use of words, will find some reason to doubt whether language, as it has been employed, has contributed more to the improvement... The Projector: A Periodical Paper - Page 344by Alexander Chalmers - 1815Full view - About this book
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| John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1828 - 602 pages
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| John Locke - 1854 - 536 pages
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