Lacon: or, Many things in few words, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme&Brown, 1822 |
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... object more attainable perhaps on any other theme , than on that which I have adopted ; for on this subject all men are critics , although very few are connoisseurs ; the man of the world is indig- nant at being supposed to stand in ...
... object more attainable perhaps on any other theme , than on that which I have adopted ; for on this subject all men are critics , although very few are connoisseurs ; the man of the world is indig- nant at being supposed to stand in ...
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... , it is true , proposes to himself the same object , but arrives at it by a very different route . Provided only that he gets on , he is not particular whether he effects 1 9 it where there is a road , or where 28 MANY THINGS :
... , it is true , proposes to himself the same object , but arrives at it by a very different route . Provided only that he gets on , he is not particular whether he effects 1 9 it where there is a road , or where 28 MANY THINGS :
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... object , upon the retina ; having done this , they have done all that is ex- pected of them . What power is it then that rectifies all the errors of this machinery , as to number , position , and size , and presents us with one upright ...
... object , upon the retina ; having done this , they have done all that is ex- pected of them . What power is it then that rectifies all the errors of this machinery , as to number , position , and size , and presents us with one upright ...
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... object may exist , and yet be no where , and I assert ( says he ) that this is not only possible , but that the ... objects and perceptions so far from requiring any particular place , are absolutely incompatible with it , and even the ...
... object may exist , and yet be no where , and I assert ( says he ) that this is not only possible , but that the ... objects and perceptions so far from requiring any particular place , are absolutely incompatible with it , and even the ...
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... objects , that the mind seems to expand , as if already shaking off its earthly fetters , and returning to its source ; and it is scarcely too much to say , that the de- light which it thus takes in things divine is an internal evidence ...
... objects , that the mind seems to expand , as if already shaking off its earthly fetters , and returning to its source ; and it is scarcely too much to say , that the de- light which it thus takes in things divine is an internal evidence ...
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