Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately |
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... sense of the word - a slight sketch , to be filled up by the reader ; brief hints , designed to be followed out ; loose thoughts on some There is a very useful little work by the Rev. Mr. Booker , a Vocabulary of the obsolete words and ...
... sense of the word - a slight sketch , to be filled up by the reader ; brief hints , designed to be followed out ; loose thoughts on some There is a very useful little work by the Rev. Mr. Booker , a Vocabulary of the obsolete words and ...
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... sense of the word , —an Essay such as Bacon's , and also Montaigne's , — was designed to be suggestive of further remarks and reflections , and , in short , to set the reader a - thinking on the subject . It consisted of observations ...
... sense of the word , —an Essay such as Bacon's , and also Montaigne's , — was designed to be suggestive of further remarks and reflections , and , in short , to set the reader a - thinking on the subject . It consisted of observations ...
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... ; male and female created He them . ' ' As ' Now , this threefold constitution of ideas is universal . all things seem to go in pairs to sense , and to the understand- ing , so all are seen in threes by reason viii PREFACE .
... ; male and female created He them . ' ' As ' Now , this threefold constitution of ideas is universal . all things seem to go in pairs to sense , and to the understand- ing , so all are seen in threes by reason viii PREFACE .
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... sense cannot have an inside without an outside , nor a solar orb without a planetary orbicle ( inasmuch as it ceases to be solar the instant it is stript of its planet ) , so the eye of reason cannot see an inside without seeing an ...
... sense cannot have an inside without an outside , nor a solar orb without a planetary orbicle ( inasmuch as it ceases to be solar the instant it is stript of its planet ) , so the eye of reason cannot see an inside without seeing an ...
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... Christian ' avowedly in a sense quite different from the established one , is to be censured indeed for an unwarrantable abuse of language , but is not guilty of deception . " displayed seem far greater than it is ; and b 2 PREFACE . xi.
... Christian ' avowedly in a sense quite different from the established one , is to be censured indeed for an unwarrantable abuse of language , but is not guilty of deception . " displayed seem far greater than it is ; and b 2 PREFACE . xi.
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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