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... truth , I am wont for my own part to regard this work as a child of time rather than of wit ; the only wonder being that the first notion of the thing , and such great suspicions concern- ing matters long established , should have come ...
... truth , I am wont for my own part to regard this work as a child of time rather than of wit ; the only wonder being that the first notion of the thing , and such great suspicions concern- ing matters long established , should have come ...
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... truth , the obscurity of things , the entanglement of causes , the weakness of the human mind ; wherein nevertheless they show themselves never the more modest , seeing that they will rather lay the blame upon the common condition of ...
... truth , the obscurity of things , the entanglement of causes , the weakness of the human mind ; wherein nevertheless they show themselves never the more modest , seeing that they will rather lay the blame upon the common condition of ...
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... truth . Upon the whole therefore , it seems that men have not been happy hitherto either in the trust which they have placed in others or in their own industry with regard to the sciences ; especially as neither the demonstrations nor ...
... truth . Upon the whole therefore , it seems that men have not been happy hitherto either in the trust which they have placed in others or in their own industry with regard to the sciences ; especially as neither the demonstrations nor ...
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... truth in charity . And now having said my prayers I turn to men ; to whom I have certain salutary admonitions to offer and certain fair requests to make . My first admonition ( which was also my prayer ) is that men confine the sense ...
... truth in charity . And now having said my prayers I turn to men ; to whom I have certain salutary admonitions to offer and certain fair requests to make . My first admonition ( which was also my prayer ) is that men confine the sense ...
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... truth , is comprised in three refutations : the refutation of the Philosophies ; the refu- tation of the Demonstrations ; and the refutation of the Natural Human Reason . The explanation of which things , and of the true relation ...
... truth , is comprised in three refutations : the refutation of the Philosophies ; the refu- tation of the Demonstrations ; and the refutation of the Natural Human Reason . The explanation of which things , and of the true relation ...
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