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... opinions of mankind . In his Liberal , not to say Radical notions , I was decidedly opposed to him ; while my reverence for the Established Church , of which I am proud to call myself a member , made the discus- sion of its discipline ...
... opinions of mankind . In his Liberal , not to say Radical notions , I was decidedly opposed to him ; while my reverence for the Established Church , of which I am proud to call myself a member , made the discus- sion of its discipline ...
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... opinion , compel us all to be actors and hypocrites , simulators and dissimulators ; and the more servile the observance of this slavish disingenuousness , the greater the assumed civilization ! Oh , for a week's social intercourse in ...
... opinion , compel us all to be actors and hypocrites , simulators and dissimulators ; and the more servile the observance of this slavish disingenuousness , the greater the assumed civilization ! Oh , for a week's social intercourse in ...
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... opinion , he ventures to plagiarize a few stanzas versified from a prose apologue of Dr. Sheri- dan- Affliction one day , as she hark'd to the roar Of the stormy and struggling billow , Drew a beautiful form on the sands of the shore ...
... opinion , he ventures to plagiarize a few stanzas versified from a prose apologue of Dr. Sheri- dan- Affliction one day , as she hark'd to the roar Of the stormy and struggling billow , Drew a beautiful form on the sands of the shore ...
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... opinions , expositions , and inter- pretations , of the most subtle doctors and learned commen . tators on every one of them . The only sure way , then , " add they , " to come to the certain knowledge of the truth , is to consult God ...
... opinions , expositions , and inter- pretations , of the most subtle doctors and learned commen . tators on every one of them . The only sure way , then , " add they , " to come to the certain knowledge of the truth , is to consult God ...
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... opinion which he adopts , and adopt those that he disclaims , which , as Bacon pithily observes , " is to make another man's folly the master of your wisdom . " Bentham , in his Book of Fallacies , has ably pointed out the absurdity of ...
... opinion which he adopts , and adopt those that he disclaims , which , as Bacon pithily observes , " is to make another man's folly the master of your wisdom . " Bentham , in his Book of Fallacies , has ably pointed out the absurdity of ...
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