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... principle , which will usually be , in different cases , and with or without certain modifications , true or false , applicable or inapplicable . When then a Proverb is introduced , the speaker usually employs it as a Major - premise ...
... principle , which will usually be , in different cases , and with or without certain modifications , true or false , applicable or inapplicable . When then a Proverb is introduced , the speaker usually employs it as a Major - premise ...
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... principle of three - in - one . Three - in - one is the deepest - lying cypher of the universe . " 1 Again : The ' relativity ' of human knowledge , i.e. , the meta- physical limitation of it , implies , we are told , the relation of a ...
... principle of three - in - one . Three - in - one is the deepest - lying cypher of the universe . " 1 Again : The ' relativity ' of human knowledge , i.e. , the meta- physical limitation of it , implies , we are told , the relation of a ...
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... principles that had been overlooked , the less need is there to resort , for popular use , to the argu- ments by which ... principle of gravitation . But in the Moral Sciences the ground seems never to be incontestably won ; and this is ...
... principles that had been overlooked , the less need is there to resort , for popular use , to the argu- ments by which ... principle of gravitation . But in the Moral Sciences the ground seems never to be incontestably won ; and this is ...
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... principles to start from . Bacon laboured zealously and powerfully to recall philosophers from the study of fanciful systems , based on crude conjectures , or on imperfect knowledge , to the careful and judicious investi- gation , or ...
... principles to start from . Bacon laboured zealously and powerfully to recall philosophers from the study of fanciful systems , based on crude conjectures , or on imperfect knowledge , to the careful and judicious investi- gation , or ...
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With Annotations by Richard Whately Francis Bacon. deducing , and rightly employing , general principles , will be perhaps greater than their ignorance of facts . Now , to attempt remedying this defect by imparting to them additional ...
With Annotations by Richard Whately Francis Bacon. deducing , and rightly employing , general principles , will be perhaps greater than their ignorance of facts . Now , to attempt remedying this defect by imparting to them additional ...
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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