The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Volumen1T. Constable and Company [etc. ], 1854 - 480 páginas |
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... language enables a skilful writer to smooth and varnish over his most illogical transitions . The most essential imperfections , however , of this historical sketch , may be fairly ascribed to a certain vagueness and inde- cision in the ...
... language enables a skilful writer to smooth and varnish over his most illogical transitions . The most essential imperfections , however , of this historical sketch , may be fairly ascribed to a certain vagueness and inde- cision in the ...
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... language , it may un- doubtedly be said , that the faculty of abstraction is not less essential to the Poet , than to the Geometer and the Meta- physician.1 But this is not the doctrine of D'Alembert . 10 DISSERTATION . - PREFACE .
... language , it may un- doubtedly be said , that the faculty of abstraction is not less essential to the Poet , than to the Geometer and the Meta- physician.1 But this is not the doctrine of D'Alembert . 10 DISSERTATION . - PREFACE .
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... language can be greater than to apply a common name to departments of know- ledge which invite the curiosity in directions precisely contrary , and which tend to form intellectual talents , which , if not alto- gether incompatible , are ...
... language can be greater than to apply a common name to departments of know- ledge which invite the curiosity in directions precisely contrary , and which tend to form intellectual talents , which , if not alto- gether incompatible , are ...
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... language of the Materialists , or that of their opponents , it is a proposition equally certain and equally indisputable , that the phenomena of Mind and those of Matter , as far as they come under the cognizance of our faculties ...
... language of the Materialists , or that of their opponents , it is a proposition equally certain and equally indisputable , that the phenomena of Mind and those of Matter , as far as they come under the cognizance of our faculties ...
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... language of each respective people , particularly in Ger- many , Italy , France , and Britain . " - ( Mosheim's Eccles . Hist . vol . iii . p . 265. ) The effect of this single circum- stance in multiplying the number of readers and of ...
... language of each respective people , particularly in Ger- many , Italy , France , and Britain . " - ( Mosheim's Eccles . Hist . vol . iii . p . 265. ) The effect of this single circum- stance in multiplying the number of readers and of ...
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