The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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... under consideration , one of those which may , with equal * The maxim , Natura se potissimum prodit in minimis , is not confined to physiology . Spect . No. 496. T. Sect . I. The obscurity .... Part III . From 16 THE PHILOSOPHY OF Book II .
... under consideration , one of those which may , with equal * The maxim , Natura se potissimum prodit in minimis , is not confined to physiology . Spect . No. 496. T. Sect . I. The obscurity .... Part III . From 16 THE PHILOSOPHY OF Book II .
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... equal truth , " Man is of few days and full of trouble . " " Godli- 66 ness has the promise both of the present life and of " the future . " On the other hand , these pronouns are determinative , when they are employed to limit the ...
... equal truth , " Man is of few days and full of trouble . " " Godli- 66 ness has the promise both of the present life and of " the future . " On the other hand , these pronouns are determinative , when they are employed to limit the ...
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... equal to the same thing , are equal to one another . It may , in like manner , be admitted as an axiom in physiology , that ideas associated by the same idea , will associate one another . Hence it will happen , that if , from ...
... equal to the same thing , are equal to one another . It may , in like manner , be admitted as an axiom in physiology , that ideas associated by the same idea , will associate one another . Hence it will happen , that if , from ...
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... in convers- ing , without the use of signs . WHEN it is affirmed , that the whole is equal to all its parts , there cannot be an affirmation which is more Sect . I. The nature and power of signs in 88 Book II . THE PHILOSOPHY OF.
... in convers- ing , without the use of signs . WHEN it is affirmed , that the whole is equal to all its parts , there cannot be an affirmation which is more Sect . I. The nature and power of signs in 88 Book II . THE PHILOSOPHY OF.
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... equal and un- equal , the same angle to be at once acute , obtuse , and right . These philosophers sagely remark , as a conse- quence of their doctrine , that the mind must be ex- tremely slow in attaining so wonderful a talent ; where ...
... equal and un- equal , the same angle to be at once acute , obtuse , and right . These philosophers sagely remark , as a conse- quence of their doctrine , that the mind must be ex- tremely slow in attaining so wonderful a talent ; where ...
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