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... degree subdue and overcome the necessities and miseries of humanity . This is the second part of the work . But I design not only to indicate and mark out the ways , but also to enter them . And therefore the third part of the work ...
... degree subdue and overcome the necessities and miseries of humanity . This is the second part of the work . But I design not only to indicate and mark out the ways , but also to enter them . And therefore the third part of the work ...
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... degrees of assurance , for use and relief until the mind shall arrive at a knowledge of causes in which it can rest . For even those schools of philosophy which held the absolute impossibility of knowing anything were not inferior to ...
... degrees of assurance , for use and relief until the mind shall arrive at a knowledge of causes in which it can rest . For even those schools of philosophy which held the absolute impossibility of knowing anything were not inferior to ...
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... degrees of distortion and error . One of the least faulty kinds is that of names of sub- stances , especially of lowest species and well - deduced ( for the notion of chalk and of mud is good , of earth bad ) ; a more faulty kind is ...
... degrees of distortion and error . One of the least faulty kinds is that of names of sub- stances , especially of lowest species and well - deduced ( for the notion of chalk and of mud is good , of earth bad ) ; a more faulty kind is ...
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... degree that they change their very essence and substance and turn to something else , this is generation and corruption . But all this is merely popular , and does not at all go deep into nature ; for these are only measures and limits ...
... degree that they change their very essence and substance and turn to something else , this is generation and corruption . But all this is merely popular , and does not at all go deep into nature ; for these are only measures and limits ...
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... degree either neglected or hindered , it is no wonder if men made but small advance in that to which they were not attending . LXXX . To this it may be added that natural philosophy , even among those who have attended to it , has ...
... degree either neglected or hindered , it is no wonder if men made but small advance in that to which they were not attending . LXXX . To this it may be added that natural philosophy , even among those who have attended to it , has ...
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