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... example in taking order for the collecting and perfecting of a Natural and Experimental History , true and severe ( unin- cumbered with literature and book - learning ) , such as philo- sophy may be built upon , —such , in fact , as I ...
... example in taking order for the collecting and perfecting of a Natural and Experimental History , true and severe ( unin- cumbered with literature and book - learning ) , such as philo- sophy may be built upon , —such , in fact , as I ...
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... examples and experience , and straightway proceeded , as if inven- tion were nothing more than an exercise of thought , to invoke their own spirits to give them oracles . I , on the contrary , dwelling purely and constantly among the ...
... examples and experience , and straightway proceeded , as if inven- tion were nothing more than an exercise of thought , to invoke their own spirits to give them oracles . I , on the contrary , dwelling purely and constantly among the ...
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... example in every kind . I do not speak of those examples which are joined to the several precepts and rules by way of illustration ( for of these I have given plenty in the second part of the work ) ; but I mean actual types and models ...
... example in every kind . I do not speak of those examples which are joined to the several precepts and rules by way of illustration ( for of these I have given plenty in the second part of the work ) ; but I mean actual types and models ...
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... example and look in it as in a glass ) let us suppose that some vast obelisk were ( for the decoration of a triumph or some such magnificence ) to be removed from its place , and that men should set to work upon it with their naked ...
... example and look in it as in a glass ) let us suppose that some vast obelisk were ( for the decoration of a triumph or some such magnificence ) to be removed from its place , and that men should set to work upon it with their naked ...
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... example such a word as humid ; and see how far the several things which the word is used to signify agree with each other ; and we shall find the word humid to be nothing else than a mark loosely and confusedly applied to denote a ...
... example such a word as humid ; and see how far the several things which the word is used to signify agree with each other ; and we shall find the word humid to be nothing else than a mark loosely and confusedly applied to denote a ...
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