Lacon: or, Many things in few words, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme&Brown, 1822 |
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... matter for him , on the ladies 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 ...
... matter for him , on the ladies 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 ...
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... matters of religion , it too often happens that belief goes before examination , and we take our creed front our nurse , but not our conviction . If the intellectual food should afterwards rise upon the stomach , it is because in this ...
... matters of religion , it too often happens that belief goes before examination , and we take our creed front our nurse , but not our conviction . If the intellectual food should afterwards rise upon the stomach , it is because in this ...
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... matter of testimony , rather than of experience . So powerful , however , is analogy , that in most disputes it has been courted as an ally by both parties ; it has even sent arguments , as Switzerland troops , to both sides , and its ...
... matter of testimony , rather than of experience . So powerful , however , is analogy , that in most disputes it has been courted as an ally by both parties ; it has even sent arguments , as Switzerland troops , to both sides , and its ...
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... matter , as learnedly and as long as we please , as some have done before us , and yet we shall not establish the existence of matter by any such dubitations ; but the moment we begin to doubt about the existence of mind , the very act ...
... matter , as learnedly and as long as we please , as some have done before us , and yet we shall not establish the existence of matter by any such dubitations ; but the moment we begin to doubt about the existence of mind , the very act ...
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... matter , and I by no means affirm that matter does not also act upon mind ; for to those who advocate the intimate con- nection between body and mind , these reciprocities of action are easily reconcileable ; but this will be an ...
... matter , and I by no means affirm that matter does not also act upon mind ; for to those who advocate the intimate con- nection between body and mind , these reciprocities of action are easily reconcileable ; but this will be an ...
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