The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 3R. Carter, 1841 |
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... direct contradiction to Dr. Brown we hold " that every branch of the physics of mere matter could be cultivated to its highest degree of accuracy and perfection , without our ever having reflected on the nature of that intellectual ...
... direct contradiction to Dr. Brown we hold " that every branch of the physics of mere matter could be cultivated to its highest degree of accuracy and perfection , without our ever having reflected on the nature of that intellectual ...
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... direct revelation before me . 10. It has been affirmed in plea for the priority of the study of mind over all other studies , that it is only by means of just conceptions in regard to the powers and the province of the human intellect ...
... direct revelation before me . 10. It has been affirmed in plea for the priority of the study of mind over all other studies , that it is only by means of just conceptions in regard to the powers and the province of the human intellect ...
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... direct path of simpli- city and common sense in pursuit of some labori- ous follies of their own , can I who do not share in these follies only find access to that path across the still more laborious Philosophy which has now ...
... direct path of simpli- city and common sense in pursuit of some labori- ous follies of their own , can I who do not share in these follies only find access to that path across the still more laborious Philosophy which has now ...
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... direct object of contemplation . There is a certain obstinate scepticism which cannot be reasoned against , and which can be contravened in no other way , than by an affirmation of the mind's instinctive confidence in those principles ...
... direct object of contemplation . There is a certain obstinate scepticism which cannot be reasoned against , and which can be contravened in no other way , than by an affirmation of the mind's instinctive confidence in those principles ...
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... evidence that we shall have occasion to make of it . The direct work of the understanding both in Christianity and in the other branches of human investigation may be going on rightly , while that work OF ITS OWN PROCESSES . 35.
... evidence that we shall have occasion to make of it . The direct work of the understanding both in Christianity and in the other branches of human investigation may be going on rightly , while that work OF ITS OWN PROCESSES . 35.
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