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... hand , it were absurd to get rid of o by saying , Let me contradict myself ; let me subvert my own hypothesis ; let me take it for granted that there is no in- crement , at the same time that I retain a quantity which I could never have ...
... hand , it were absurd to get rid of o by saying , Let me contradict myself ; let me subvert my own hypothesis ; let me take it for granted that there is no in- crement , at the same time that I retain a quantity which I could never have ...
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... hands . As this Dublin professor gleans after the Cantabrigian , " only endeavouring to translate a few pas- sages from Sir Isaac Newton's " Principia , " and enlarge on a hint or two of " Philalethes , " he deserves no particular ...
... hands . As this Dublin professor gleans after the Cantabrigian , " only endeavouring to translate a few pas- sages from Sir Isaac Newton's " Principia , " and enlarge on a hint or two of " Philalethes , " he deserves no particular ...
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... hand when the public shall seem disposed to make use of such an expedient . I had determined with myself never to prefix my name to the " Querist , " but in the last edition was overruled by a friend , who was remarkable for pursuing ...
... hand when the public shall seem disposed to make use of such an expedient . I had determined with myself never to prefix my name to the " Querist , " but in the last edition was overruled by a friend , who was remarkable for pursuing ...
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... hands for the common benefit deserve not to be expelled like drones out of a well- governed state ? 4. Whether the four elements , and man's labour therein , be not the true source of wealth ? 5. Whether money be not only so far useful ...
... hands for the common benefit deserve not to be expelled like drones out of a well- governed state ? 4. Whether the four elements , and man's labour therein , be not the true source of wealth ? 5. Whether money be not only so far useful ...
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... hands , and repine that we are not allowed the woollen ? 74. Whether it be true that two millions are yearly ex- pended by England in foreign lace and linen ? 75. Whether immense sums are not drawn yearly into the Northern countries ...
... hands , and repine that we are not allowed the woollen ? 74. Whether it be true that two millions are yearly ex- pended by England in foreign lace and linen ? 75. Whether immense sums are not drawn yearly into the Northern countries ...
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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.