A Philosophical Essay on Credulity and Superstition: And Also on Animal Fascination, Or CharmingD. Appleton & Company, 1849 - 206 sider |
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... render it more readily intelligible to every reader . But as it has been his design to trace the errors , originating in the subjects discussed , to their physiological and pa- thological origin , he has been compelled , occasionally ...
... render it more readily intelligible to every reader . But as it has been his design to trace the errors , originating in the subjects discussed , to their physiological and pa- thological origin , he has been compelled , occasionally ...
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... rendered its adorations to the factitious etch- ings of its own conception . Hence it will be found , that among the va- rious tribes and communities of man , unen- lightened by revelation , the respective im- aginative divinities which ...
... rendered its adorations to the factitious etch- ings of its own conception . Hence it will be found , that among the va- rious tribes and communities of man , unen- lightened by revelation , the respective im- aginative divinities which ...
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... renders it extremely probable , that it was the most effectual instrument by which the people were governed , and by which , in a great degree , their national tranquility and power were sustained . It is not to be presumed , that in ...
... renders it extremely probable , that it was the most effectual instrument by which the people were governed , and by which , in a great degree , their national tranquility and power were sustained . It is not to be presumed , that in ...
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... render their systems complicated and impenetrable , and to render mystical a texture , whose power alone was derived from its incomprehensibility . Not content with the proofs which these devised systems of theology derived from the ...
... render their systems complicated and impenetrable , and to render mystical a texture , whose power alone was derived from its incomprehensibility . Not content with the proofs which these devised systems of theology derived from the ...
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... render it probable that physics , with some of the ancients , had attained a degree of perfection little short of that of the present period ; and it is not unlikely , that in what are termed the experimental sciences , the former were ...
... render it probable that physics , with some of the ancients , had attained a degree of perfection little short of that of the present period ; and it is not unlikely , that in what are termed the experimental sciences , the former were ...
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Side 196 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Side 196 - tis to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice ; and yon' tall, anchoring bark, Diminished to her cock ; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight.