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... confused with other kin- dred but different questions ; it may be separated with difficulty from the general problem that embraces it . Then again it is often difficult to put the question into words after it is found . Looseness in ...
... confused with other kin- dred but different questions ; it may be separated with difficulty from the general problem that embraces it . Then again it is often difficult to put the question into words after it is found . Looseness in ...
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... confusion arose from a failure to find out what the proposition really meant . It meant either the one thing or the other , but , in the same debate , it could not mean both . The discussion could not bring about any result till it had ...
... confusion arose from a failure to find out what the proposition really meant . It meant either the one thing or the other , but , in the same debate , it could not mean both . The discussion could not bring about any result till it had ...
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... confused and be carelessly joined together in a single statement . For example , stu- dents often devise such propositions as , Resolved , that a high protective tariff is hostile to the economic interests of the United States , and ...
... confused and be carelessly joined together in a single statement . For example , stu- dents often devise such propositions as , Resolved , that a high protective tariff is hostile to the economic interests of the United States , and ...
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... confusion . We may handle each of these questions separately , but we cannot hope to treat them successfully at the same time . Consequently , in formulating our ideas , we must be sure not only to have the form of a proposi- tion , but ...
... confusion . We may handle each of these questions separately , but we cannot hope to treat them successfully at the same time . Consequently , in formulating our ideas , we must be sure not only to have the form of a proposi- tion , but ...
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... confuse his readers or hearers by giving them a false , distorted view of his case . a disputant does not comprehend just what are the few vital points of his case , around which all the lesser facts must be grouped , his proof will ...
... confuse his readers or hearers by giving them a false , distorted view of his case . a disputant does not comprehend just what are the few vital points of his case , around which all the lesser facts must be grouped , his proof will ...
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Page 106 - Nothing worse happens to you than does to all nations who have extensive empire, and it happens in all the forms into which empire can be thrown. In large bodies, the circulation of power must be less vigorous at the extremities.
Page 219 - NO MAN thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the house. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen, if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve. This is no time for ceremony.
Page 266 - Far from it. Far from deciding on a sudden or partial view, I would patiently go round and round the subject, and survey it minutely in every possible aspect. Sir, if I were capable of engaging you to an equal attention, I would state that, as far as I am capable of discerning, there are but three ways of proceeding relative to this stubborn spirit which prevails in your colonies and disturbs your government. These are, to change that spirit, as inconvenient, by removing the causes ; ' to prosecute...
Page 266 - If, then, the removal of the causes of this spirit of American liberty be for the greater part, or rather entirely, impracticable; if the ideas of criminal process be inapplicable, or, if applicable, are in the highest degree inexpedient; what way yet remains? No way is open but the third and last^-to comply with the American spirit as necessary; or, if you please, to submit to it as a necessary evil.
Page 247 - I wish for nothing but to breathe, in this our island, in common with my fellow-subjects, the air of liberty. I have no ambition, unless it be the ambition to break your chain, and contemplate your glory. I never will be satisfied so long as the meanest cottager in Ireland has a link of the British chain clanking to his rags. He may be naked, — he shall not be in irons.
Page 118 - If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.
Page 298 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them.
Page 118 - Whatever phenomenon varies in any manner whenever another phenomenon varies in some particular manner, is either a cause or an effect of that phenomenon, or is connected with it through some fact of causation.
Page 118 - If two or more instances in which the phenomenon occurs have only one circumstance in common, while two or more instances in which it does not occur have nothing in common save the absence of that circumstance, the circumstance in which alone the two sets of instances differ is the effect, or the cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon.