Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pages |
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... 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 in separating and combining them . Even when ...
... 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 in separating and combining them . Even when ...
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... reason about abstractions . But the great mass of men must have images . The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle . The first inhabitants of Greece , there is reason ...
... reason about abstractions . But the great mass of men must have images . The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle . The first inhabitants of Greece , there is reason ...
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... reason and prejudice . That great battle was fought for no single gene- ration , for no single land . The destinies of the human race were staked on the same cast with the freedom of the English people . Then were first proclaimed those ...
... reason and prejudice . That great battle was fought for no single gene- ration , for no single land . The destinies of the human race were staked on the same cast with the freedom of the English people . Then were first proclaimed those ...
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... reason which can be urged in favour of the Revolution of 1688 may be urged with at least equal force in favour of what is called the Great Rebellion . say In one respect , only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to ...
... reason which can be urged in favour of the Revolution of 1688 may be urged with at least equal force in favour of what is called the Great Rebellion . say In one respect , only , we think , can the warmest admirers of Charles venture to ...
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... reason . The extreme violence of opinions subsides . Hostile theories correct each other . The scattered elements of truth cease to contend , and begin to coalesce . And at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos ...
... reason . The extreme violence of opinions subsides . Hostile theories correct each other . The scattered elements of truth cease to contend , and begin to coalesce . And at length a system of justice and order is educed out of the chaos ...
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