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... effect of novelty , especially since nobody has thought it worth his while to show that this famous lady anticipated much that was hailed as new in the recent work of Montalembert : - " Another inconvenience of France was that mass of ...
... effect of novelty , especially since nobody has thought it worth his while to show that this famous lady anticipated much that was hailed as new in the recent work of Montalembert : - " Another inconvenience of France was that mass of ...
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... effect given to all around it . Truth is a quality essential to the whole ; but the accession of each part respectively operates , not as if it were merely added to the compound , but as multiplied into it . We may add , in illustration ...
... effect given to all around it . Truth is a quality essential to the whole ; but the accession of each part respectively operates , not as if it were merely added to the compound , but as multiplied into it . We may add , in illustration ...
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... effect . His library contained thousand volumes , many of which he had covered with manuscript notes ; and he always seems to have kept his pen and ink in view when he once got into the habit of writing : - Montaigne made it , as it ...
... effect . His library contained thousand volumes , many of which he had covered with manuscript notes ; and he always seems to have kept his pen and ink in view when he once got into the habit of writing : - Montaigne made it , as it ...
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... effect : below Socrates in elevation and noble pur- pose , fifteen hundred years after an event which ought to have made him wiser and holier than Socrates . THERE is , we believe , some variety of opinion respecting the beneficial ...
... effect : below Socrates in elevation and noble pur- pose , fifteen hundred years after an event which ought to have made him wiser and holier than Socrates . THERE is , we believe , some variety of opinion respecting the beneficial ...
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... effect produced . In either case , whatever force is absorbed by the machine is deducted from the result . A reader or listener has at each moment but a limited amount of mental power available . To recognise and interpret the symbols ...
... effect produced . In either case , whatever force is absorbed by the machine is deducted from the result . A reader or listener has at each moment but a limited amount of mental power available . To recognise and interpret the symbols ...
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Page 11 - Again ; the mathematical postulate, that " things which are equal to the same are equal to one another," is similar to the form of the syllogism in logic, which unites things agreeing in the middle term.
Page 124 - Britain's isle, no matter where, An ancient pile of building stands ; The Huntingdons and Hattons there Employ'd the power of fairy hands To raise the ceiling's fretted height, Each pannel in achievements clothing, Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages, that lead to nothing.
Page 2 - BOSCOBEL TRACTS. Relating to the Escape of Charles the Second after the Battle of Worcester, and his subsequent Adventures. Edited by J. HUGHES, Esq., AM A New Edition, with additional Notes and Illustrations, including Communications from the Rev. RH BARHAM, Author of the
Page 306 - If by this inquiry into the nature of the understanding, I can discover the powers thereof; how far they reach; to what things they are in any degree proportionate; and where they fail us, I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension...
Page 306 - Whereas, were the capacities of our understandings well considered, the extent of our knowledge once discovered, and the horizon found which sets the bounds between the enlightened and dark parts of things; between what is and what is not comprehensible by us, men would perhaps with less scruple acquiesce in the avowed ignorance of the one, and employ their thoughts and discourse with more advantage and satisfaction in the other.
Page 25 - On seeking for some clue to the law underlying these current maxims, we may see shadowed forth in many of them, the importance of economizing the reader's or hearer's attention. To so present ideas that they may be apprehended with the least possible mental effort, is the desideratum towards which most of the rules above quoted point.
Page 333 - Protestant interests/ this excessive love for ' the balance of power/ is neither more nor less than a gigantic system of out-door relief for the aristocracy of Great Britain.
Page 306 - I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension, to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether, and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities.
Page 25 - A reader or listener has at each moment but a limited amount of mental power available. To recognize and interpret the symbols presented to him, requires part of this power ; to arrange and combine the images suggested requires a further part ; and only that part which remains can be used for realizing the thought conveyed.
Page 307 - ... attempt to escape from this apparent contradiction, by introducing the idea of succession in time. The Absolute exists first by itself, and afterwards becomes a Cause, But here we are checked by the third conception, that of the Infinite. How can the Infinite become that which it was not from the first'? If Causation is a possible mode of existence, that which exists without causing is not infinite ; that which becomes a cause has passed beyond its former limits.