Macaulay: Prose and PoetryRupert Hart-Davis, 1952 - 864 pages |
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Page 581
... reason a priori . It grew up with the verbal sophistry which flourished during the dark ages . With that sophistry it fell before the Baconian philosophy , in the day of the great deliverance of the human mind . The inductive method not ...
... reason a priori . It grew up with the verbal sophistry which flourished during the dark ages . With that sophistry it fell before the Baconian philosophy , in the day of the great deliverance of the human mind . The inductive method not ...
Page 582
... reason back from an enlarged collection of facts to prin- ciples . Now here we have two governments which , by Mr ... reasons a priori , because the phenomena are not what , by reasoning a priori , he will prove them to be . In other ...
... reason back from an enlarged collection of facts to prin- ciples . Now here we have two governments which , by Mr ... reasons a priori , because the phenomena are not what , by reasoning a priori , he will prove them to be . In other ...
Page 771
... reason for suffering Covent Garden Market , and Leadenhall Market , and Smithfield Market , and all the shops from Mile End to Hyde Park to be open all Sunday . Nay , these factories about which we are debating , does anybody propose ...
... reason for suffering Covent Garden Market , and Leadenhall Market , and Smithfield Market , and all the shops from Mile End to Hyde Park to be open all Sunday . Nay , these factories about which we are debating , does anybody propose ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND SELECTED PASSAGES II | 13 |
ESSAYS | 233 |
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