Elements of CriticismA. S. Barnes & Company, 1866 - 486 páginas |
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... tion as a text - book , especially in female seminaries . Hence some retrenchment becomes necessary to the highest usefulness of the work : and it will not be doubted that it may receive great improvement , by additions which may be ...
... tion as a text - book , especially in female seminaries . Hence some retrenchment becomes necessary to the highest usefulness of the work : and it will not be doubted that it may receive great improvement , by additions which may be ...
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... tion is , to any one sort . Thus feeling being the genus of which sen- sation is a species , their meaning is the same when applied to pleasure and pain felt at the organ of sense and accordingly we say indif- ferently , " I feel ...
... tion is , to any one sort . Thus feeling being the genus of which sen- sation is a species , their meaning is the same when applied to pleasure and pain felt at the organ of sense and accordingly we say indif- ferently , " I feel ...
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... tion of this terrible doctrine to be no better than a shallow metaphysical argu- ment , namely , " That no being can act but where it is : and consequently , that and accurate definition of an idea , in contradistinction to 12 INTRODUCTION ...
... tion of this terrible doctrine to be no better than a shallow metaphysical argu- ment , namely , " That no being can act but where it is : and consequently , that and accurate definition of an idea , in contradistinction to 12 INTRODUCTION ...
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... tion be demonstrated , every man without scruple may rely upon the conviction f his senses , that he hears and sees things at a distance . But I venture a bolder step , which is , to show that the proposition is false . Admitting that ...
... tion be demonstrated , every man without scruple may rely upon the conviction f his senses , that he hears and sees things at a distance . But I venture a bolder step , which is , to show that the proposition is false . Admitting that ...
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... tion for any of them , than the practice merely of Homer and Virgil , supported by the authority of Aristotle . Strange ! that in so long a work , he should never once have stumbled upon the question , Whether , and how far , do these ...
... tion for any of them , than the practice merely of Homer and Virgil , supported by the authority of Aristotle . Strange ! that in so long a work , he should never once have stumbled upon the question , Whether , and how far , do these ...
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