Lacon: or, Many things in few words, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme&Brown, 1822 |
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Page iii
... agreed ; perhaps we have discovered that the prize is not worth the contention . Hence there is a kind of alphabet of first principles , now established in the 6 moral world , which is not very likely to be INTRODUCTION . iii.
... agreed ; perhaps we have discovered that the prize is not worth the contention . Hence there is a kind of alphabet of first principles , now established in the 6 moral world , which is not very likely to be INTRODUCTION . iii.
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... discovered a new page in the volume of man , and the other scarcely more pleased with the valuable reasoning of Sir Robert , than with his own specious rhetoric , which had so suddenly metamorphosed an act of the foulest cor- ruption ...
... discovered a new page in the volume of man , and the other scarcely more pleased with the valuable reasoning of Sir Robert , than with his own specious rhetoric , which had so suddenly metamorphosed an act of the foulest cor- ruption ...
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... discovering their plot , to have ' persuaded his first favourite that his heart was not in the thing , and that he had fallen into the snare , only from a deference to her commands ; and if he were wrong in his conclusion , which was ...
... discovering their plot , to have ' persuaded his first favourite that his heart was not in the thing , and that he had fallen into the snare , only from a deference to her commands ; and if he were wrong in his conclusion , which was ...
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... discovery , or taking an obser- vation . 2 LIV . Ivw✪s deaurov , know thyself , is a precept which we are informed descended from heaven , a cælo descendit , y diator . But the same authority has not been bold enough to affirm that it ...
... discovery , or taking an obser- vation . 2 LIV . Ivw✪s deaurov , know thyself , is a precept which we are informed descended from heaven , a cælo descendit , y diator . But the same authority has not been bold enough to affirm that it ...
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... discovered the trinity in a triangle , so there are some anatomists who will not believe in the existence of a soul , because they have never yet been able to transfix it upon the point of their knife ; and yet methinks there is one ...
... discovered the trinity in a triangle , so there are some anatomists who will not believe in the existence of a soul , because they have never yet been able to transfix it upon the point of their knife ; and yet methinks there is one ...
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