The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 3R. Carter, 1841 |
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Page viii
... opposition to a prevalent bias , so like adequately to impress on the understanding of the reader - as the inherently greater strength of evidence given by the scriptural than by the exscriptural , or by the original than the subsequent ...
... opposition to a prevalent bias , so like adequately to impress on the understanding of the reader - as the inherently greater strength of evidence given by the scriptural than by the exscriptural , or by the original than the subsequent ...
Page 38
... opposition to book - learning ; and it serves to account for the use which has been made of this phrase , by various writers , as synonymous with intuition . " These seemingly instantaneous judgments have always appeared to me as ...
... opposition to book - learning ; and it serves to account for the use which has been made of this phrase , by various writers , as synonymous with intuition . " These seemingly instantaneous judgments have always appeared to me as ...
Page 40
... opposition , each of its friends having in the very fact of his conversion left his own distinct confirmation behind him , and each of its enemies having done the same thing in the fact of his silence - these topics have undergone ...
... opposition , each of its friends having in the very fact of his conversion left his own distinct confirmation behind him , and each of its enemies having done the same thing in the fact of his silence - these topics have undergone ...
Page 52
... opposition to this idea it was a maxim of Turgot's , that some of our most abstract and general notions are among the earliest we form . What meaning he annexed to this maxim , we are not informed ; but if he understood it in the same ...
... opposition to this idea it was a maxim of Turgot's , that some of our most abstract and general notions are among the earliest we form . What meaning he annexed to this maxim , we are not informed ; but if he understood it in the same ...
Page 62
... oppose to the strength of this expectation either the evidence of sense or the evidence of testimony . But there is a certain device of illustration which we shall employ , as being the most effectual preparative that we can think of ...
... oppose to the strength of this expectation either the evidence of sense or the evidence of testimony . But there is a certain device of illustration which we shall employ , as being the most effectual preparative that we can think of ...
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