Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh ReviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 |
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... Surely the uniformity of the phænomenon indicates a corresponding uniformity in the 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 ...
... Surely the uniformity of the phænomenon indicates a corresponding uniformity in the 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 ...
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... surely come . But Satan is a creature of another sphere . The might of his intellectual nature is victorious over the extremity of pain . Amidst agonies which cannot be conceived without horror , he deliberates , resolves , and even ...
... surely come . But Satan is a creature of another sphere . The might of his intellectual nature is victorious over the extremity of pain . Amidst agonies which cannot be conceived without horror , he deliberates , resolves , and even ...
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... surely from want of wit that Shakspeare adopted so different a manner . Benedick and Beatrice throw Mirabel and Millamant into the shade . All the good sayings of the facetious houses of Absolute and Surface might have been clipped from ...
... surely from want of wit that Shakspeare adopted so different a manner . Benedick and Beatrice throw Mirabel and Millamant into the shade . All the good sayings of the facetious houses of Absolute and Surface might have been clipped from ...
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... surely a man who liked the fire so little should have had some sympathy for others . A persecutor who inflicts nothing which he is not ready to endure deserves some respect . But when a man who loves his doctrines more than the lives of ...
... surely a man who liked the fire so little should have had some sympathy for others . A persecutor who inflicts nothing which he is not ready to endure deserves some respect . But when a man who loves his doctrines more than the lives of ...
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... surely very irrational . The rules of evi- dence no more depend on the magnitude of the inter- ests at stake than the rules of arithmetic . We might as well say that we have a greater chance of throwing a size when we are playing for a ...
... surely very irrational . The rules of evi- dence no more depend on the magnitude of the inter- ests at stake than the rules of arithmetic . We might as well say that we have a greater chance of throwing a size when we are playing for a ...
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