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... produce fruit and works , then arise contentions and barking disputations , which are the end of the matter and all the issue they can yield . Observe also , that if sciences of this kind had any life in them , that could never have ...
... produce fruit and works , then arise contentions and barking disputations , which are the end of the matter and all the issue they can yield . Observe also , that if sciences of this kind had any life in them , that could never have ...
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... produced no material work , but proceeded to that on the days following . As for those who have given the first place to Logic , sup- posing that the surest helps to the sciences were to be found in that , they have indeed most truly ...
... produced no material work , but proceeded to that on the days following . As for those who have given the first place to Logic , sup- posing that the surest helps to the sciences were to be found in that , they have indeed most truly ...
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... produce them , not here and there one , but in clusters . And that unseasonable and puerile hurry to snatch by way of earnest at the first works which come within reach , I utterly condemn and reject , as an Atalanta's apple that ...
... produce them , not here and there one , but in clusters . And that unseasonable and puerile hurry to snatch by way of earnest at the first works which come within reach , I utterly condemn and reject , as an Atalanta's apple that ...
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... produce , there must needs have been some comparison or rivalry between us ( not to be avoided by any art of words ) in respect of excellency or ability of wit ; and though in this there would be nothing unlawful or new ( for if there ...
... produce , there must needs have been some comparison or rivalry between us ( not to be avoided by any art of words ) in respect of excellency or ability of wit ; and though in this there would be nothing unlawful or new ( for if there ...
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... produced . Nature to be commanded must be obeyed ; and that which in con- templation is as the cause is in operation as the rule . IV . Towards the effecting of works , all that man can do is to put together or put asunder natural ...
... produced . Nature to be commanded must be obeyed ; and that which in con- templation is as the cause is in operation as the rule . IV . Towards the effecting of works , all that man can do is to put together or put asunder natural ...
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