The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 3R. Carter, 1841 |
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... examination of it - just as way the preliminary objection to a witness upon a trial , if not previously judged of and pronounced upon , is held fatal to the reception of his evidence . We have therefore introduced our discussion of this ...
... examination of it - just as way the preliminary objection to a witness upon a trial , if not previously judged of and pronounced upon , is held fatal to the reception of his evidence . We have therefore introduced our discussion of this ...
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... examination of an optical glass previous to the use of it , is to compare its intimations with those of the eye , that we might reduce both to the same standard . But a like scientific examination of the eye is not at all called for ...
... examination of an optical glass previous to the use of it , is to compare its intimations with those of the eye , that we might reduce both to the same standard . But a like scientific examination of the eye is not at all called for ...
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... examination on our part of the intellectual faculty . Our disposition in many a question is to move a previous question which must be first settled , ere we hold ourselves in a condition for starting fair with the one immediately before ...
... examination on our part of the intellectual faculty . Our disposition in many a question is to move a previous question which must be first settled , ere we hold ourselves in a condition for starting fair with the one immediately before ...
Page 84
... examination of the minute details by which they may be really discriminated , to conclude with eagerness , that the experiments and observations which we make with respect to one individual , may be safely extended to the whole class ...
... examination of the minute details by which they may be really discriminated , to conclude with eagerness , that the experiments and observations which we make with respect to one individual , may be safely extended to the whole class ...
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... examination we should not hesitate to admit it , in spite of its extreme improbability , and no one would try to explain it by having recourse to the idea of an illusion produced through a reversion of the laws of vision . We ought to ...
... examination we should not hesitate to admit it , in spite of its extreme improbability , and no one would try to explain it by having recourse to the idea of an illusion produced through a reversion of the laws of vision . We ought to ...
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