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... thought , and accept his system before we examine it . He is to most Englishmen the one philosopher , in as eminent a sense as Aristotle was so to the schoolmen . It strikes us as new , in con- wwwwwwwwww London : LONGMAN , BROWN , and ...
... thought , and accept his system before we examine it . He is to most Englishmen the one philosopher , in as eminent a sense as Aristotle was so to the schoolmen . It strikes us as new , in con- wwwwwwwwww London : LONGMAN , BROWN , and ...
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... thought , interprets its special significance at every step , shows what a strict connexion there is between the parts , and what a large and vital unity it possesses as a whole . He does this , too , not like a German but like an ...
... thought , interprets its special significance at every step , shows what a strict connexion there is between the parts , and what a large and vital unity it possesses as a whole . He does this , too , not like a German but like an ...
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... thought desirable ; and about half of the fifth volume ( which it was found convenient to print before the fourth ) had been carried through on that plan , when an engagement on the Continent made it impos- sible for him to superintend ...
... thought desirable ; and about half of the fifth volume ( which it was found convenient to print before the fourth ) had been carried through on that plan , when an engagement on the Continent made it impos- sible for him to superintend ...
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... thought that the meaning could thereby be conveyed more clearly . In numberless cases indeed this has been done , I may say , on Bacon's own authority ; a large part of the De Augmentis being in fact a translation from his own ...
... thought that the meaning could thereby be conveyed more clearly . In numberless cases indeed this has been done , I may say , on Bacon's own authority ; a large part of the De Augmentis being in fact a translation from his own ...
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... THOUGHTS . BEING convinced that the human intellect makes its own diffi- culties , not using the true helps which ... thought all trial should be made , whether that commerce between the mind of man and the nature of things , which is ...
... THOUGHTS . BEING convinced that the human intellect makes its own diffi- culties , not using the true helps which ... thought all trial should be made , whether that commerce between the mind of man and the nature of things , which is ...
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