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... intellectual varieties among mankind are so great as , on a superfi- cial view , almost to constitute specific distinctions ; and to establish as near an affinity , in point of intelli- gence , between the lowest of these and the most ...
... intellectual varieties among mankind are so great as , on a superfi- cial view , almost to constitute specific distinctions ; and to establish as near an affinity , in point of intelli- gence , between the lowest of these and the most ...
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... intellectual improvement we may individually pro- pose to ourselves , and the motives by which we are actuated in the search ! We may admit the saying of Locke , that " this life is a scene of vanity , " and perhaps may bring our ...
... intellectual improvement we may individually pro- pose to ourselves , and the motives by which we are actuated in the search ! We may admit the saying of Locke , that " this life is a scene of vanity , " and perhaps may bring our ...
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... intellectual , advance- ment . Hence it is that the man who can boast little else than a capacious memory , though his mind may be stored with the records of past ages , is often ex- tremely deficient in the faculty of Reason , and in ...
... intellectual , advance- ment . Hence it is that the man who can boast little else than a capacious memory , though his mind may be stored with the records of past ages , is often ex- tremely deficient in the faculty of Reason , and in ...
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... intellectual powers ; and sometimes to express the power of deduction or argu- mentation . The former is the sense in which the word is used in common discourse . It is in the latter restricted sense , as indeed is implied a little ...
... intellectual powers ; and sometimes to express the power of deduction or argu- mentation . The former is the sense in which the word is used in common discourse . It is in the latter restricted sense , as indeed is implied a little ...
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... intellectual powers in every period . " Of these he notices three classes . " First - There are many things necessary to be done for our preservation , which even when we will to do , we know not the means by which they must be done . A ...
... intellectual powers in every period . " Of these he notices three classes . " First - There are many things necessary to be done for our preservation , which even when we will to do , we know not the means by which they must be done . A ...
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