Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately |
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... mind by some late writers both in England and America ; -a sort of ' Children of the Mist , ' who bring forward their speculations - often very silly , and not seldom very mischievous - under cover of the twilight . They have accustomed ...
... mind by some late writers both in England and America ; -a sort of ' Children of the Mist , ' who bring forward their speculations - often very silly , and not seldom very mischievous - under cover of the twilight . They have accustomed ...
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... may we not 1 This must have been in the mind of the poet who wrote- ' So , down thy hill , romantic Ashbourne , glides The Derby Dilly , carrying three insides . ' b discover and define the highest law of intelligence , and PREFACE . ix.
... may we not 1 This must have been in the mind of the poet who wrote- ' So , down thy hill , romantic Ashbourne , glides The Derby Dilly , carrying three insides . ' b discover and define the highest law of intelligence , and PREFACE . ix.
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... minds of many , that Germany has something far more profound to supply than anything hitherto extant in our native ... mind that every one can easily take it in . An explanation that is 1 This passage is from the Cautions for the Times ...
... minds of many , that Germany has something far more profound to supply than anything hitherto extant in our native ... mind that every one can easily take it in . An explanation that is 1 This passage is from the Cautions for the Times ...
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... mind has not been trained to read rightly the volume of nature , and of human transactions , spread before him . When complaints are made - often not altogether without reason of the prevailing ignorance of facts , on such or such ...
... mind has not been trained to read rightly the volume of nature , and of human transactions , spread before him . When complaints are made - often not altogether without reason of the prevailing ignorance of facts , on such or such ...
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... mind of a great general to form the plan of a campaign , and to direct aright the movements of great bodies of troops : but the greatest general may perhaps fall far short of many a private soldier in the use of the musket or the sword ...
... mind of a great general to form the plan of a campaign , and to direct aright the movements of great bodies of troops : but the greatest general may perhaps fall far short of many a private soldier in the use of the musket or the sword ...
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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