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... Evidence , Appendix , and Index . Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed , 14th July , 1834. Sessional Paper , No. 478 . 3. Copies or Extracts from Communications or Dis- patches , ' addressed to the Board of Control , relating ...
... Evidence , Appendix , and Index . Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed , 14th July , 1834. Sessional Paper , No. 478 . 3. Copies or Extracts from Communications or Dis- patches , ' addressed to the Board of Control , relating ...
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... evidence and rendered matter of practical certainty , we hand them over to reasoners of another kind , to discover by appropriate inquiries or experiments in what they consist , and what other offices they may fulfil in the great ...
... evidence and rendered matter of practical certainty , we hand them over to reasoners of another kind , to discover by appropriate inquiries or experiments in what they consist , and what other offices they may fulfil in the great ...
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... evidence the influence of any ' cause ' or circumstantial con- dition common to the whole series , which may give even a tri- fling preponderance of facility to any one of the classes of events contemplated over the rest . Common sense ...
... evidence the influence of any ' cause ' or circumstantial con- dition common to the whole series , which may give even a tri- fling preponderance of facility to any one of the classes of events contemplated over the rest . Common sense ...
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... evidence , and the validity of logical argument might come to be surveyed with that lynx - eyed scrutiny of a dispassionate analysis , which , if not at once leading to the discovery of positive truth , would at least secure the ...
... evidence , and the validity of logical argument might come to be surveyed with that lynx - eyed scrutiny of a dispassionate analysis , which , if not at once leading to the discovery of positive truth , would at least secure the ...
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... evidence would be , that , if he aimed at anything , it was not a point in the surface of the wall , and that only stray missiles had struck it . But , suppose he had been practising with a rifle at a wafer on the wall ; which , being ...
... evidence would be , that , if he aimed at anything , it was not a point in the surface of the wall , and that only stray missiles had struck it . But , suppose he had been practising with a rifle at a wafer on the wall ; which , being ...
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Side 352 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Side 276 - Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Side 327 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and in'tense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Side 90 - Stoop then, and wash. — How many ages hence, Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, In states unborn, and accents yet unknown ? Bru.
Side 332 - If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style ; which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy, let them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the license of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France.
Side 347 - This is a misery much to be lamented ; for though they were burning and shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God, but, were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light as that which they first received.
Side 557 - To the inmost mind, There exercise all his fierce accidents, And on her purest spirits prey, As on entrails, joints, and limbs, With answerable pains, but more intense, Though void of corporal sense.