The Complete Works of Thomas Dick, LL. D. ... Eleven Volumes in Two..., Volume 1Edwards & Bushnell, 1857 |
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... human beings is not called in question , and is some- times referred to as a general position which of instruction through which he now passes has an important bearing on his happiness in that state , and his preparations for its employ ...
... human beings is not called in question , and is some- times referred to as a general position which of instruction through which he now passes has an important bearing on his happiness in that state , and his preparations for its employ ...
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... human faces , as if they were small and insignificant objects , and partook of the nature of animated beings . Peacocks and cranes , foxes and squirrels , cats and mice , are represented in the attitude of speaking and of holding con ...
... human faces , as if they were small and insignificant objects , and partook of the nature of animated beings . Peacocks and cranes , foxes and squirrels , cats and mice , are represented in the attitude of speaking and of holding con ...
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... human frame , as if they could improve the mechanism and symmetry devised by Infinite Wisdom . Hence the derangement of the physical system produced by laced stays , strait jackets , corsets , and other absurd articles of dress , by ...
... human frame , as if they could improve the mechanism and symmetry devised by Infinite Wisdom . Hence the derangement of the physical system produced by laced stays , strait jackets , corsets , and other absurd articles of dress , by ...
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... human subject . Such a model , could it be procured , would answer all the purposes of general instruction . The only valid objection that could be made to its introduction would be , the expense with which it would be necessarily ...
... human subject . Such a model , could it be procured , would answer all the purposes of general instruction . The only valid objection that could be made to its introduction would be , the expense with which it would be necessarily ...
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... human race prevented . - Were this sources of error , and of the dispositions and subject to be illustrated in all its extent , it circumstances among mankind from which would be requisite , in the first place , to give a errors and ...
... human race prevented . - Were this sources of error , and of the dispositions and subject to be illustrated in all its extent , it circumstances among mankind from which would be requisite , in the first place , to give a errors and ...
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