Nature of the material worldLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1834 - Natural history |
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... former Times ; and especially that of Greece and Rome XII . On the Dark or Middle Ages XIII . On the Revival of Literature · 240 · 271 311 338 - 372 VOLUME III . SERIES III . NATURE OF THE MIND : ITS GENERAL FACULTIES AND FURNITURE ...
... former Times ; and especially that of Greece and Rome XII . On the Dark or Middle Ages XIII . On the Revival of Literature · 240 · 271 311 338 - 372 VOLUME III . SERIES III . NATURE OF THE MIND : ITS GENERAL FACULTIES AND FURNITURE ...
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... former , and leads to more dangerous consequences . In Germany , Professor Kant has allowed a part of this tenet , as well as parts of various other tenets * , to enter into his system , or that which he chooses to distinguish by the ...
... former , and leads to more dangerous consequences . In Germany , Professor Kant has allowed a part of this tenet , as well as parts of various other tenets * , to enter into his system , or that which he chooses to distinguish by the ...
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... former opinion with the same promptitude with which we fly from every opinion that opposes it . * Theæt . t . i . p . 176 . + Id . Phileb . See also Brucker , Hist . Phil . lib . ii . cap . viii . § 1 . Matter , then , is the production ...
... former opinion with the same promptitude with which we fly from every opinion that opposes it . * Theæt . t . i . p . 176 . + Id . Phileb . See also Brucker , Hist . Phil . lib . ii . cap . viii . § 1 . Matter , then , is the production ...
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... former of which he denominated monad ) are to be distinguished from each other unity is an abstract conception resem- bling primary or incorporeal matter in its general aggregate ; one appertains to things capable of being numbered ...
... former of which he denominated monad ) are to be distinguished from each other unity is an abstract conception resem- bling primary or incorporeal matter in its general aggregate ; one appertains to things capable of being numbered ...
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... former . Pythagoras , however , was as much attached to music as to numbers , regarding it as a mere branch of the science of numbers applied to a definite object . He has , indeed , the credit of having in- vented the monochord , and ...
... former . Pythagoras , however , was as much attached to music as to numbers , regarding it as a mere branch of the science of numbers applied to a definite object . He has , indeed , the credit of having in- vented the monochord , and ...
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