Bacon's Essays: with annotations by Richard Whately. Sixth edition, revised and enlargedLongman & Company, 1864 - 620 pages |
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... cause after having heard all the pleadings . I have accordingly appended to most of the Essays some of Bacon's Antitheta ' on the same subjects . Several of these Antitheta ' were either adopted by Bacon from proverbial use , or have ...
... cause after having heard all the pleadings . I have accordingly appended to most of the Essays some of Bacon's Antitheta ' on the same subjects . Several of these Antitheta ' were either adopted by Bacon from proverbial use , or have ...
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... cause obscurity , conduces much to the opposite effect , and causes the meaning to be far more clearly apprehended than it would have been in a longer expression . More than half the cases , probably , in which men either misapprehend ...
... cause obscurity , conduces much to the opposite effect , and causes the meaning to be far more clearly apprehended than it would have been in a longer expression . More than half the cases , probably , in which men either misapprehend ...
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... cause has again to be pleaded , before judges , some of whom are prejudiced , and others will not readily attend to reasoning founded on premises which they think unsusceptible of proof . ' To treat fully of the design and character of ...
... cause has again to be pleaded , before judges , some of whom are prejudiced , and others will not readily attend to reasoning founded on premises which they think unsusceptible of proof . ' To treat fully of the design and character of ...
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... cause , or an extravagant and fanciful theory , he is conscious also of a corresponding power to distinguish sound reasoning from sophistry . But this will not avail to protect him from convincing himself by ingenious sophistry of his ...
... cause , or an extravagant and fanciful theory , he is conscious also of a corresponding power to distinguish sound reasoning from sophistry . But this will not avail to protect him from convincing himself by ingenious sophistry of his ...
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... cause supported by it , is probably right in that belief ; but if it be for that reason that he abstains from it , — if he avoid fallacy , wholly or partly , through fear of detection , — it is plain he is no sincere votary of truth ...
... cause supported by it , is probably right in that belief ; but if it be for that reason that he abstains from it , — if he avoid fallacy , wholly or partly , through fear of detection , — it is plain he is no sincere votary of truth ...
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