Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately |
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... sides ; and then you are in the condition of a judge who has to decide some cause after having heard all the pleadings . I have accordingly appended to most of the Essays some of Bacon's ' Antitheta ' on the same subjects . and Several ...
... sides ; and then you are in the condition of a judge who has to decide some cause after having heard all the pleadings . I have accordingly appended to most of the Essays some of Bacon's ' Antitheta ' on the same subjects . and Several ...
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... 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 accumulation of ill ...
... 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 accumulation of ill ...
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... side ; but it is not every one that sincerely wishes to be on the side of Truth . 6 ' The inquiry of truth , which is the love - making or 1 wooing of it.'1 This love - making or wooing of Truth implies that first step towards attaining ...
... side ; but it is not every one that sincerely wishes to be on the side of Truth . 6 ' The inquiry of truth , which is the love - making or 1 wooing of it.'1 This love - making or wooing of Truth implies that first step towards attaining ...
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... side of inclination , -all perversion of the evidence in consequence . That we should wish to find truth on one side rather than the other , is in many cases not only unavoidable , but commendable ; but to think that true which we wish ...
... side of inclination , -all perversion of the evidence in consequence . That we should wish to find truth on one side rather than the other , is in many cases not only unavoidable , but commendable ; but to think that true which we wish ...
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... sides . For any one may bring himself to believe almost anything that he is inclined to believe , and thinks it ... side , whatever it may be , which they are predisposed to adopt . If this I shall merely enumerate a few of the most ...
... sides . For any one may bring himself to believe almost anything that he is inclined to believe , and thinks it ... side , whatever it may be , which they are predisposed to adopt . If this I shall merely enumerate a few of the most ...
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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