The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh, Volume 1Longmans, Brown, Green, Longmans, 1854 - Political science |
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... speculations . There are , perhaps , not many occasions where the penury and laxity of language are more felt than in entering on the history of sciences where the first measure must be to mark out the boundary of the whole subject with ...
... speculations . There are , perhaps , not many occasions where the penury and laxity of language are more felt than in entering on the history of sciences where the first measure must be to mark out the boundary of the whole subject with ...
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... speculation are handed down from the legendary age of Greek philosophy . In the remaining monuments of that more ancient form of civilisation which sprung up in Asia , we see clearly that the Brahminical philosophers , in times perhaps ...
... speculation are handed down from the legendary age of Greek philosophy . In the remaining monuments of that more ancient form of civilisation which sprung up in Asia , we see clearly that the Brahminical philosophers , in times perhaps ...
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... speculations of ancient to those of modern times . That dark stream must be un- covered before the history of the European Under- standing can be thoroughly comprehended . It was lawful for the emancipators of Reason in their first ...
... speculations of ancient to those of modern times . That dark stream must be un- covered before the history of the European Under- standing can be thoroughly comprehended . It was lawful for the emancipators of Reason in their first ...
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... speculation no possible test of their truth , and lead , in practice , to total indifference and inactivity respecting human affairs . I quote with pleasure an excellent observation from this work : " Le moyen âge n'est pas autre chose ...
... speculation no possible test of their truth , and lead , in practice , to total indifference and inactivity respecting human affairs . I quote with pleasure an excellent observation from this work : " Le moyen âge n'est pas autre chose ...
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... speculations to degenerate into gaudy dreams or a mere war of words . The disputants who are set free from the ... speculation since mis- takenly supposed to have been first explored in more modern times . Scarcely any metaphysical ...
... speculations to degenerate into gaudy dreams or a mere war of words . The disputants who are set free from the ... speculation since mis- takenly supposed to have been first explored in more modern times . Scarcely any metaphysical ...
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