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Page 60
... judgments ; and truth is to be sought for not in the felicity of any age , which is an unstable thing , but in the light of nature and experience , which is eternal . These factions therefore must be abjured , and care must be taken ...
... judgments ; and truth is to be sought for not in the felicity of any age , which is an unstable thing , but in the light of nature and experience , which is eternal . These factions therefore must be abjured , and care must be taken ...
Page 71
... judgment are impeded and beset , I will speak hereafter ; here I have only mentioned ordi- nary experimental research as a bad kind of demonstration . But now the order of the matter in hand leads me to add something both as to those ...
... judgment are impeded and beset , I will speak hereafter ; here I have only mentioned ordi- nary experimental research as a bad kind of demonstration . But now the order of the matter in hand leads me to add something both as to those ...
Page 72
... judgment more successful ; only that their works were in the course of time obscured by those slighter persons who had more which suits and pleases the capacity and tastes of the vulgar : time , like a river , bringing down to us things ...
... judgment more successful ; only that their works were in the course of time obscured by those slighter persons who had more which suits and pleases the capacity and tastes of the vulgar : time , like a river , bringing down to us things ...
Page 73
... judgment , or rather divination , which was given concerning the Greeks by the Ægyp- tian priest , that " they were always boys , without antiquity of knowledge or knowledge of antiquity . " Assuredly they have that which is ...
... judgment , or rather divination , which was given concerning the Greeks by the Ægyp- tian priest , that " they were always boys , without antiquity of knowledge or knowledge of antiquity . " Assuredly they have that which is ...
Page 89
... judgment , they must undertake the task all by themselves ; they can have no advantage from the company of others . And if they can endure this also , they will find their industry and largeness of mind no slight hindrance to their ...
... judgment , they must undertake the task all by themselves ; they can have no advantage from the company of others . And if they can endure this also , they will find their industry and largeness of mind no slight hindrance to their ...
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