Lacon: or, Many things in few words, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme&Brown, 1822 |
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... weakness of prin- ciple . A day or two previous to the agitation of the mea- sure alluded to , he chanced upon a county member , who sometimes looked to the weight and value of an argument , rather than to its justice , or its truth ...
... weakness of prin- ciple . A day or two previous to the agitation of the mea- sure alluded to , he chanced upon a county member , who sometimes looked to the weight and value of an argument , rather than to its justice , or its truth ...
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... weakness than to the skill of others ; and the successes gained over us by the designing , are usually nothing more than the prey taken from those very snares we have laid ourselves . One man falls by his ambition , another by his ...
... weakness than to the skill of others ; and the successes gained over us by the designing , are usually nothing more than the prey taken from those very snares we have laid ourselves . One man falls by his ambition , another by his ...
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... weakness ; the muscularity of their mind on some points is not enfeebled by any ricketty conformation on others , and this enables us to ascend the ladder of science , high enough to be on a level with the wisdom of our forefathers at ...
... weakness ; the muscularity of their mind on some points is not enfeebled by any ricketty conformation on others , and this enables us to ascend the ladder of science , high enough to be on a level with the wisdom of our forefathers at ...
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... weakness or hebetation of the mind . Again , if the mind be indeed not the tenant of the corporeal dwelling , but an ab- solute and component part of the dwelling itself , where does the mysterious but tangible palladium of this temple ...
... weakness or hebetation of the mind . Again , if the mind be indeed not the tenant of the corporeal dwelling , but an ab- solute and component part of the dwelling itself , where does the mysterious but tangible palladium of this temple ...
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... weakness more salutary than strength ; for the villainy of man would in- crease with the depravity of his will , and the depravity of his will , with every augmentation of his power . The force of intellect imparted to that which was ...
... weakness more salutary than strength ; for the villainy of man would in- crease with the depravity of his will , and the depravity of his will , with every augmentation of his power . The force of intellect imparted to that which was ...
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