Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately |
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Page vi
... thought , by any one well conversant with Reasoning , to consist merely in the saving of breath , paper , or time . Brevity , when it does not cause obscurity , conduces much to the opposite effect , and causes the meaning to be far ...
... thought , by any one well conversant with Reasoning , to consist merely in the saving of breath , paper , or time . Brevity , when it does not cause obscurity , conduces much to the opposite effect , and causes the meaning to be far ...
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... thought by some to be a superfluous task to say anything at all concerning a work which has been in most people's hands for about two centuries and a - half , and has , in that time , rather gained than lost in popularity . But there ...
... thought by some to be a superfluous task to say anything at all concerning a work which has been in most people's hands for about two centuries and a - half , and has , in that time , rather gained than lost in popularity . But there ...
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... thought without these their antitheses , and without the respective middle terms of the pairs . As the eye of common ... thought and of all things . Nothing has been created , nothing can be thought , except upon the principle of three ...
... thought without these their antitheses , and without the respective middle terms of the pairs . As the eye of common ... thought and of all things . Nothing has been created , nothing can be thought , except upon the principle of three ...
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... thought as an unskilful eye would estimate the depth of water . Muddy water is apt to be supposed to be deeper than it is , because you cannot see to the bottom ; very clear water , on the contrary , will always seem less deep than it ...
... thought as an unskilful eye would estimate the depth of water . Muddy water is apt to be supposed to be deeper than it is , because you cannot see to the bottom ; very clear water , on the contrary , will always seem less deep than it ...
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... thought it best with stricken sails to yield to be governed by it .'- Sidney . + Daniel ii . 33 . " 5 Muniting . The defending ; fortifying . By protracting of tyme , King Henry might fortify and munite all dangerous places and passages ...
... thought it best with stricken sails to yield to be governed by it .'- Sidney . + Daniel ii . 33 . " 5 Muniting . The defending ; fortifying . By protracting of tyme , King Henry might fortify and munite all dangerous places and passages ...
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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