Works, Volume 3G. Bell and sons, 1898 |
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... experience of animal life ? Qu . 58. Whether it be really an effect of thinking , that the same men admire the great author for his fluxions , and deride him for his religion ? Qu . 59. If certain philosophical virtuosi of the present ...
... experience of animal life ? Qu . 58. Whether it be really an effect of thinking , that the same men admire the great author for his fluxions , and deride him for his religion ? Qu . 59. If certain philosophical virtuosi of the present ...
Page 65
... experience , and that of several others whom you could name , that the doctrine of fluxions may be clearly conceived and dis- tinctly comprehended ; and that if I am puzzled about it and do not understand it , yet others do . " But can ...
... experience , and that of several others whom you could name , that the doctrine of fluxions may be clearly conceived and dis- tinctly comprehended ; and that if I am puzzled about it and do not understand it , yet others do . " But can ...
Page 78
... experience , and that of many others whom I could name , that the doctrine may be clearly conceived and distinctly comprehended " ( p . 31 ) . And it may be uncivil not to believe what you so solemnly affirm , from your own experience ...
... experience , and that of many others whom I could name , that the doctrine may be clearly conceived and distinctly comprehended " ( p . 31 ) . And it may be uncivil not to believe what you so solemnly affirm , from your own experience ...
Page 174
... experience shews there is nothing more important ; and that a prevailing disorder in the principles and opinions of its members is ever dangerous to society , and capable of producing the greatest public evils . Man is an animal ...
... experience shews there is nothing more important ; and that a prevailing disorder in the principles and opinions of its members is ever dangerous to society , and capable of producing the greatest public evils . Man is an animal ...
Page 178
... experience of ages supply the place of proofs and reasonings with the vulgar of all ranks : I would say that discipline , national constitution , and laws human and divine are so many plain land - marks , which guide them into the paths ...
... experience of ages supply the place of proofs and reasonings with the vulgar of all ranks : I would say that discipline , national constitution , and laws human and divine are so many plain land - marks , which guide them into the paths ...
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Page 388 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 390 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.