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... interests of science , and which it is always easy for its advocates to represent as the proudest display of human rea- son . Hence , too , it is a nice and difficult , though most important duty , to prescribe rules and limitations for ...
... interests of science , and which it is always easy for its advocates to represent as the proudest display of human rea- son . Hence , too , it is a nice and difficult , though most important duty , to prescribe rules and limitations for ...
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... interests of sci- ence . Under the influence of this impression , the student who has bent all the energies of a powerful mind to the investigation of the laws of Nature , eager to view her constitution as a whole , and unwilling to ...
... interests of sci- ence . Under the influence of this impression , the student who has bent all the energies of a powerful mind to the investigation of the laws of Nature , eager to view her constitution as a whole , and unwilling to ...
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... interests of man , that these shadowy forms of fancied perfection , which once pretended to be the light of the world ' , have passed like a Parad . Lost . ix . 1009 . Αμαθία μάλα χαλεπὴ , δοκοῦσα εἶναι μεγίστη φρόνησις . De Legg . lib ...
... interests of man , that these shadowy forms of fancied perfection , which once pretended to be the light of the world ' , have passed like a Parad . Lost . ix . 1009 . Αμαθία μάλα χαλεπὴ , δοκοῦσα εἶναι μεγίστη φρόνησις . De Legg . lib ...
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... interest against their will . " - If Hobbes , or Machiavel , maintained that man was a leviathan , to be held from rude outrage only by a hook in the nose , and a bridle in the lips , each of them might be detected , in the unguarded ...
... interest against their will . " - If Hobbes , or Machiavel , maintained that man was a leviathan , to be held from rude outrage only by a hook in the nose , and a bridle in the lips , each of them might be detected , in the unguarded ...
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... relation to the philosophy of the mind , and primarily de- mands our attention : we shall find , however , that the former is not deficient either in interest or utility , in its subordinate application to the same inquiry.
... relation to the philosophy of the mind , and primarily de- mands our attention : we shall find , however , that the former is not deficient either in interest or utility , in its subordinate application to the same inquiry.
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Página 262 - And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green. To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon. Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Página 261 - Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon in wavering morrice move ; And, on the tawny sands and shelves, Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.
Página 17 - Him with her loved society; that now, As with new wine intoxicated both, They swim in mirth, and fancy that they feel Divinity within them breeding wings, Wherewith to scorn the earth...
Página 23 - And hence one master passion in the breast. Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
Página 287 - For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action, commonly spoken of by the ancients ; the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable ; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even...
Página 20 - Caecum agit, insanum Chrysippi porticus et grex Autumat. Haec populos, haec magnos formula reges 45 Excepto sapiente tenet. Nunc accipe, quare Desipiant omnes aeque ac tu, .qui tibi nomen Insano posuere. Velut silvis, ubi passim Palantes error certo de tramite pellit, • Ille sinistrorsum , hie dextrorsum abit, unus utrique 50 Error, sed variis illudit partibus, hoc te Crede modo insanum, nihilo ut sapientior ille, Qui te deridet, caudam trahat.
Página 36 - So it is in contemplation ; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Página 234 - Quid tam temerarium tamque indignum sapientis gravitate atque constantia, quam aut falsum sentire, aut quod non satis explorate: perceptum sit, et cognitum, sine ulla dubitatione defendere ?—Cic.
Página 94 - Nempe inter varias nutritur silva columnas, Laudaturque domus, longos quae prospicit agros. Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret, Et mala perrumpet furtim fastidia victrix.
Página 39 - ... examining the power and nature of words, as they are the footsteps and prints of reason : which kind of analogy between words and reason is handled sparsim...