Essays and SelectionsPickering, 1837 - 356 páginas |
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... modes of altering bad law , 281 6. He assists in the improvement of the law , 282 7. He is not deterred from improving by fear of worldly loss , 283 8. Or by cries against reform , 283 9. If the principle is wrong he radically improves ...
... modes of altering bad law , 281 6. He assists in the improvement of the law , 282 7. He is not deterred from improving by fear of worldly loss , 283 8. Or by cries against reform , 283 9. If the principle is wrong he radically improves ...
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... modes , 1st . By our senses , as by putting a finger in the fire , & c . 2ndly . By the communication of others , as a parent informs his child that an adder or a rat- tlesnake will bite and that their bite is veno- mous ; or that a ...
... modes , 1st . By our senses , as by putting a finger in the fire , & c . 2ndly . By the communication of others , as a parent informs his child that an adder or a rat- tlesnake will bite and that their bite is veno- mous ; or that a ...
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... modes , error must be traceable to the operation of one or more of these causes . The questions , therefore , as to the causes error are , 1st . Do our senses mislead us ? 2nd . Are we misled by the communications of others ? 3rd . Do ...
... modes , error must be traceable to the operation of one or more of these causes . The questions , therefore , as to the causes error are , 1st . Do our senses mislead us ? 2nd . Are we misled by the communications of others ? 3rd . Do ...
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... modes by which our reason is misled are almost infinite . To prevent these errors , to rec- tify our reason , Lord Bacon devoted his mind in his immortal Novum Organum , where he has ex- plained " how our reason should be guided , that ...
... modes by which our reason is misled are almost infinite . To prevent these errors , to rec- tify our reason , Lord Bacon devoted his mind in his immortal Novum Organum , where he has ex- plained " how our reason should be guided , that ...
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... mode of dis- covering any truth : -By Facts --- By the opinions of Intelligence , our consuls to advise ; -and By Reason , the dictator to command . The peasants in a particular district in Italy loaded their panniers with vegetables on ...
... mode of dis- covering any truth : -By Facts --- By the opinions of Intelligence , our consuls to advise ; -and By Reason , the dictator to command . The peasants in a particular district in Italy loaded their panniers with vegetables on ...
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advocate answered appears beautiful Ben Jonson body cause Chancellor child Christian church common conscious court death demagogue discover distress divine doth duty earth effect endeavours England erroneous error excited exertions favour fear feeling hand happiness hath hear heart heaven Hobbes's honour hope human ignorance improvement instantly intelligence John Milton judge judgment Julius Cæsar justice king knowledge laugh laughter lawyer learned liberty live Lord Bacon love of excellence majesty master maxim ment mind mode Muggletonian nature ness never noble Novum Organum opinion passed passions Patriot philosophy Phocion pleasure prejudice principle profession punishment reason reform religion remembers respect Sarah Price says sequence of events serang Sir Edward Coke Sir Matthew Hale Sir Samuel Romilly soul speaking spirit sudden superiority sympathy Tenterden things Thomas Clarkson thought tion Tobit true truth unto wisdom
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Página 12 - Of law, there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage : the very least as feeling her care ; and the greatest, as not exempted from her power.
Página 82 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Página 52 - Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands...
Página 195 - As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress, that, as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
Página 259 - But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.
Página 268 - From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say, that he will or will not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in the Court where he daily sits to practise, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.
Página 114 - Thou minds me o' the happy days When my fause luve was true. " Thou'll break my heart, thou bonie bird That sings beside thy mate ; For sae I sat, and sae I sang, And wist na o' my fate. " Aft hae I rov'd by bonie Doon, To see the woodbine twine, And ilka bird sang o' its love, And sae did I o
Página 185 - For this is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the Commonwealth, that let no man in this world expect ; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
Página 316 - But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.
Página 11 - Now, if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether, though it were but for a while, the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have ; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself ; if celestial...