Lacon: or, Many things in few words, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme&Brown, 1822 |
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... forms the staple of his respective commodity . XVII . WITH the offspring of genius , the law of parturition is reversed ; the throes are in the conception , the pleasure in the birth . XVIII . AS no roads are so rough as those that have ...
... forms the staple of his respective commodity . XVII . WITH the offspring of genius , the law of parturition is reversed ; the throes are in the conception , the pleasure in the birth . XVIII . AS no roads are so rough as those that have ...
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... form is as follows : the mind is infantile with the body , it is sometimes manly in the adult , sometimes sick and debilitated by disease , sometimes enfeebled in the de- cline of life , sometimes doting in decrepitude , and sometimes ...
... form is as follows : the mind is infantile with the body , it is sometimes manly in the adult , sometimes sick and debilitated by disease , sometimes enfeebled in the de- cline of life , sometimes doting in decrepitude , and sometimes ...
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... forms us of the operations , does not reveal the abstract nature of mind , neither do the properties reveal the essence of matter . When any one , therefore , asserts the materiality of mind he presupposes , that the phe- < nomena of ...
... forms us of the operations , does not reveal the abstract nature of mind , neither do the properties reveal the essence of matter . When any one , therefore , asserts the materiality of mind he presupposes , that the phe- < nomena of ...
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... forms of governments . The Jews have been much the same in all periods , and are the same in all places , because their social institutions are the same . Look also at Greece and at Italy , two countries the most adducible , inasmuch as ...
... forms of governments . The Jews have been much the same in all periods , and are the same in all places , because their social institutions are the same . Look also at Greece and at Italy , two countries the most adducible , inasmuch as ...
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... form one perfect whole , in him conspire " The painter's pencil , and the minstrel's lyre , " The wisdom of the sage , and prophet's hallow'd fire . " Neither can we lay down any certain rule for genius , as re- gards the periods of its ...
... form one perfect whole , in him conspire " The painter's pencil , and the minstrel's lyre , " The wisdom of the sage , and prophet's hallow'd fire . " Neither can we lay down any certain rule for genius , as re- gards the periods of its ...
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