Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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... caused more just surprise . But we will not go into the discussion of these points . The book , were it far more orthodox or far more heretical than it is , would not much edify or corrupt the present gene- ration . The men of our time ...
... caused more just surprise . But we will not go into the discussion of these points . The book , were it far more orthodox or far more heretical than it is , would not much edify or corrupt the present gene- ration . The men of our time ...
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... cause . The fact is , that common observers reason from the pro- gress of the experimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more ...
... cause . The fact is , that common observers reason from the pro- gress of the experimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more ...
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... cause and partly the effect of a corresponding change in the nature of their intellectual operations , of a change by which science gains and poetry loses . Generalisation is necessary to the advancement of knowledge ; but particularly ...
... cause and partly the effect of a corresponding change in the nature of their intellectual operations , of a change by which science gains and poetry loses . Generalisation is necessary to the advancement of knowledge ; but particularly ...
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... causes . We therefore infer that there exists something which is not material . But of this something we have no idea . We can define it only by negatives . We can reason about it only by symbols . We use the word ; but we have no image ...
... causes . We therefore infer that there exists something which is not material . But of this something we have no idea . We can define it only by negatives . We can reason about it only by symbols . We use the word ; but we have no image ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay. tangible object of adoration . Perhaps none of the secondary causes which Gibbon has assigned for the rapidity with which Christianity spread over the world , while Judaism scarcely ever acquired a proselyte ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay. tangible object of adoration . Perhaps none of the secondary causes which Gibbon has assigned for the rapidity with which Christianity spread over the world , while Judaism scarcely ever acquired a proselyte ...
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