Lacon: or, Many things in few words, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme&Brown, 1822 |
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... observe , we might be pardoned for suspecting that this celestial maxim was still on its journey . The mind , like the eye , sees all things rather than itself , and philosophers , like travellers , are often far better informed as to ...
... observe , we might be pardoned for suspecting that this celestial maxim was still on its journey . The mind , like the eye , sees all things rather than itself , and philosophers , like travellers , are often far better informed as to ...
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... observing , that falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth , and that no opinions so fatally mislead us , as those that are not wholly wrong , as no watches so effectu- ally deceive the wearer , as those ...
... observing , that falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth , and that no opinions so fatally mislead us , as those that are not wholly wrong , as no watches so effectu- ally deceive the wearer , as those ...
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... observation warrant , and this is the only logical mode of pursuing it , we are then forced upon the absurdity men tioned above . For the only analogical chain which the facts authorise us to form is as follows : the mind is infantile ...
... observation warrant , and this is the only logical mode of pursuing it , we are then forced upon the absurdity men tioned above . For the only analogical chain which the facts authorise us to form is as follows : the mind is infantile ...
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... observation would apply , mutatis mutandis , to all of the senses , but I have selected that of vision , as the most refined . We all know that the two eyes paint two minute and inverted images of an object , upon the retina ; having ...
... observation would apply , mutatis mutandis , to all of the senses , but I have selected that of vision , as the most refined . We all know that the two eyes paint two minute and inverted images of an object , upon the retina ; having ...
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... observe that the material stimuli of alcohol , or of opium , act upon the mind , through the body , and that the moral stimuli of love , or of anger , act upon the body through the mind ; these are reciprocities of action that establish ...
... observe that the material stimuli of alcohol , or of opium , act upon the mind , through the body , and that the moral stimuli of love , or of anger , act upon the body through the mind ; these are reciprocities of action that establish ...
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