A Familiar Introduction to the Arts Sciences: With Original Introductory Essays Upon the Subject of Each Lesson. For the Use of Schools and Young Persons. Containing a General Explication of the Fundamental Principles and Facts of the Sciences, Divided Into Lessons, with Questions Subjoined to Each, for the Examination of PupilsHenry G. Bohn, 1852 - 402 страница |
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... appear restricted to the more limited proportions of an art . Of the former , reason may be consi- dered as the authority , and the standard ; -of the latter there is no authority or standard but custom . The utility - the im- portance ...
... appear restricted to the more limited proportions of an art . Of the former , reason may be consi- dered as the authority , and the standard ; -of the latter there is no authority or standard but custom . The utility - the im- portance ...
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... appear , upon a careful view of these compositions , that , whatsoever credit their authors are enti- tled to , for acuteness of understanding , strength of imagina- tion , delicacy of taste , or energy of expression , there are but few ...
... appear , upon a careful view of these compositions , that , whatsoever credit their authors are enti- tled to , for acuteness of understanding , strength of imagina- tion , delicacy of taste , or energy of expression , there are but few ...
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... appears as a faithful compiler and abridger of the scattered laws . He does not presume to regulate the customs and fashions of our speech , but only notes and collects them . It matters not what these customs and fashions owe their ...
... appears as a faithful compiler and abridger of the scattered laws . He does not presume to regulate the customs and fashions of our speech , but only notes and collects them . It matters not what these customs and fashions owe their ...
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... appears to me that even his best passages are chiefly commentaries on Hartley's thoughts , though he does not seem to have read him carefully . Brown is also too de- clamatory , and too full of repetitions . Mills's " Analysis of the ...
... appears to me that even his best passages are chiefly commentaries on Hartley's thoughts , though he does not seem to have read him carefully . Brown is also too de- clamatory , and too full of repetitions . Mills's " Analysis of the ...
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... ideas , as , when compared with the others in the question , will furnish evident and known truths ; because , as will afterwards appear , it is only by means of them that we arrive at the knowledge of what is hidden LOGIC . 43.
... ideas , as , when compared with the others in the question , will furnish evident and known truths ; because , as will afterwards appear , it is only by means of them that we arrive at the knowledge of what is hidden LOGIC . 43.
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