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Page 80
... resemblance to the common complaint of old age contained in the first , of which it may be called the analyfis , renders it at once both an ingenious exhibition of fuch complaint + Dunciad . in its real import , and an argument of its ...
... resemblance to the common complaint of old age contained in the first , of which it may be called the analyfis , renders it at once both an ingenious exhibition of fuch complaint + Dunciad . in its real import , and an argument of its ...
Page 108
... resemblances or disparities in vifible objects , or fize in things tangible , where the odds is confiderable , darker or lighter tints in colours , ftronger or weaker tastes or smells , are all felf- evident , and difcoverable at once ...
... resemblances or disparities in vifible objects , or fize in things tangible , where the odds is confiderable , darker or lighter tints in colours , ftronger or weaker tastes or smells , are all felf- evident , and difcoverable at once ...
Page 139
George Campbell. 3 paft , but concerning things uncommon from things familiar , which resemble them . • Now to apply this obfervation ; a botanist in traversing the fields , lights on a particular plant , which appears to be of a fpecies ...
George Campbell. 3 paft , but concerning things uncommon from things familiar , which resemble them . • Now to apply this obfervation ; a botanist in traversing the fields , lights on a particular plant , which appears to be of a fpecies ...
Page 184
... resemble the past . A late author imagines , that he folves the difficulty at once , by saying , that what is now time past , was once future ; and that though • no man has had experience of what is future , every man has had experience ...
... resemble the past . A late author imagines , that he folves the difficulty at once , by saying , that what is now time past , was once future ; and that though • no man has had experience of what is future , every man has had experience ...
Page 185
... resemble the known ; or , which is equivalent , that the future will resemble the past . So far is this principle , therefore , from being deduced from particular experiences , that it is fundamental to all particular deductions from ...
... resemble the known ; or , which is equivalent , that the future will resemble the past . So far is this principle , therefore , from being deduced from particular experiences , that it is fundamental to all particular deductions from ...
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