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... sense of seeing . If you mean to be read , try to entertain , and do not pretend to instruct . To such objections it would be amply sufficient , on my system of faith , to answer , that we are not all blind , but all subject to ...
... sense of seeing . If you mean to be read , try to entertain , and do not pretend to instruct . To such objections it would be amply sufficient , on my system of faith , to answer , that we are not all blind , but all subject to ...
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... sense sort of writing , this prudent sale- able popular style of composition , if it be deserted by reason and scientific insight pitiably decoying the minds of men by an impos- ing show of amiableness , and practical wisdom , so that ...
... sense sort of writing , this prudent sale- able popular style of composition , if it be deserted by reason and scientific insight pitiably decoying the minds of men by an impos- ing show of amiableness , and practical wisdom , so that ...
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... sense , this is genius ! this I understand and ad- mire ! I have thought the very same a hundred times myself ! " In other words , this man has reminded me of my own clever- ness , and therefore I admire him . Oh ! for one piece of ...
... sense , this is genius ! this I understand and ad- mire ! I have thought the very same a hundred times myself ! " In other words , this man has reminded me of my own clever- ness , and therefore I admire him . Oh ! for one piece of ...
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... sense of the word . He has taken a thing before he had acquired any right or title thereto . If in addition to this unfitness which every man possesses the means of ascertaining , his aim should be to unsettle a general belief closely ...
... sense of the word . He has taken a thing before he had acquired any right or title thereto . If in addition to this unfitness which every man possesses the means of ascertaining , his aim should be to unsettle a general belief closely ...
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... sense over - clouded by the va- pors from his heart . 6 As long therefore as I obtrude no unsupported assertions on my readers ; and as long as I state my opinions and the evidence which induced or compelled me to adopt them , with ...
... sense over - clouded by the va- pors from his heart . 6 As long therefore as I obtrude no unsupported assertions on my readers ; and as long as I state my opinions and the evidence which induced or compelled me to adopt them , with ...
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Page 69 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men ; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Page 416 - My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, yo And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief: your noble son is mad.
Page 460 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years...
Page 190 - Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
Page 69 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. " And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself; kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 494 - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Page 77 - Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger, scout into the regions of sin and falsity than by reading all manner of tractates and hearing all manner of reason?
Page 23 - Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...