The London Quarterly Review, Volume 6Theodore Foster, 1812 |
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... writer whose talents might contribute to draw the public attention to an argument in which I conceived the credit of my favourite studies to be so peculiarly interested . For such an opportunity , I am indebted to a very able article in ...
... writer whose talents might contribute to draw the public attention to an argument in which I conceived the credit of my favourite studies to be so peculiarly interested . For such an opportunity , I am indebted to a very able article in ...
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... writer so confidently maintains , that the metaphysical enquirer can disclose nothing of which all his pupils were not previously aware , ' appears to us , we must say , to be nothing less than absurd ; and has led the critic into incon ...
... writer so confidently maintains , that the metaphysical enquirer can disclose nothing of which all his pupils were not previously aware , ' appears to us , we must say , to be nothing less than absurd ; and has led the critic into incon ...
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... writer , ⚫ that we shall arrive at the knowledge of the mind without pains , ' while the greatest geniuses have failed with the utmost pains , must certainly be esteemed sufficiently vain and presumptuous . ' They , indeed , who have ...
... writer , ⚫ that we shall arrive at the knowledge of the mind without pains , ' while the greatest geniuses have failed with the utmost pains , must certainly be esteemed sufficiently vain and presumptuous . ' They , indeed , who have ...
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... writer of the greatest metaphysical acumen ) we perform in mind an office similar , in ' effect , to that of the chemist in external matter , is scarcely per- ' ceived by us ; because the frequent use of material solvents , with the ...
... writer of the greatest metaphysical acumen ) we perform in mind an office similar , in ' effect , to that of the chemist in external matter , is scarcely per- ' ceived by us ; because the frequent use of material solvents , with the ...
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... writers to whom we owe them . Among Bacon's aphorisms there is not , ' he adds , ' one sentence which contains a discovery , as that word has been lately defined ; but what discoveries cau vie with them in the accessions which they have ...
... writers to whom we owe them . Among Bacon's aphorisms there is not , ' he adds , ' one sentence which contains a discovery , as that word has been lately defined ; but what discoveries cau vie with them in the accessions which they have ...
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