Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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... caused by unavoid- able haste . The author has sometimes , like other con- tributors to periodical works , been under the necessity of writing at a distance from all books and from all advisers ; of trusting to his memory for facts ...
... caused by unavoid- able haste . The author has sometimes , like other con- tributors to periodical works , been under the necessity of writing at a distance from all books and from all advisers ; of trusting to his memory for facts ...
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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 generation . 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 generation . The men of our time ...
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... cause . The fact is , that common observers reason from the progress of the experimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting ma- terials , ages more ...
... cause . The fact is , that common observers reason from the progress of the experimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting ma- terials , 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 particularity ...
... 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 particularity ...
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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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