Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately |
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... errors , and the establish- ment of some philosophical principles that had been overlooked , the less need is there to resort , for popular use , to the argu- ments by which this has ... error is relaxed , and the evils which Aiv PREFACE .
... errors , and the establish- ment of some philosophical principles that had been overlooked , the less need is there to resort , for popular use , to the argu- ments by which this has ... error is relaxed , and the evils which Aiv PREFACE .
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... error to reassert the exploded doctrine . They have become entangled by some logical fallacy , or deceived by some inaccurate or incomplete assumption of facts , or think that they see the means of ac- quiring reputation , or of ...
... error to reassert the exploded doctrine . They have become entangled by some logical fallacy , or deceived by some inaccurate or incomplete assumption of facts , or think that they see the means of ac- quiring reputation , or of ...
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... error on one side into an opposite error . And a reaction accordingly took place from the abuse of reasoning , to the undue neglect of it , and from the fault of not sufficiently observing facts , to that of trusting to a mere ...
... error on one side into an opposite error . And a reaction accordingly took place from the abuse of reasoning , to the undue neglect of it , and from the fault of not sufficiently observing facts , to that of trusting to a mere ...
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... errors of philosophers , and laying down the principles on which they ought to proceed . According to Horace's illustration , his office was not that of the razor , but the hone , acutum reddere quæ ferrum valet , exsors ipsa secandi ...
... errors of philosophers , and laying down the principles on which they ought to proceed . According to Horace's illustration , his office was not that of the razor , but the hone , acutum reddere quæ ferrum valet , exsors ipsa secandi ...
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... error , and insists on it that misselto is not a true plant , but an excrescence from the tree it grows on ! Nothing can be con- ceived more remote from the spirit of the Baconian philosophy than thus to substitute a random conjecture ...
... error , and insists on it that misselto is not a true plant , but an excrescence from the tree it grows on ! Nothing can be con- ceived more remote from the spirit of the Baconian philosophy than thus to substitute a random conjecture ...
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Common terms and phrases
advantage Æneid ancient ANNOTATIONS ANTITHETA Aristotle atheists Augustus Cæsar Bacon believe better Bishop Butler Cæsar called cause character christian Church common commonly contrary counsel course cunning danger desire divine doctrine doth doubt Edinburgh Review effect envy Epicurus error ESSAY evil favour fear feel Galba give hath helotism Henry VII honour human important infallible instance judgment Julius Cæsar keep kind king labour less maketh man's matter means men's ment merely mind moral nature never object observed opinion opposite party perceive perhaps persons political Pompey practice princes principle profess racter reason regard religion religious remarkable Roman Roman Catholic saith Scripture seditions sense side sometimes speak superstition supposed sure Tacitus things thou thought tion true truth unto usury Vespasian virtue wealth wisdom wise word