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... allowed , ( i . e . so far only as it is allowed , that the Tes- timony would not have been given , had it not been true , ) can this Argument have any force . Testimony is of various kinds ; but the distinction between them is so ...
... allowed , ( i . e . so far only as it is allowed , that the Tes- timony would not have been given , had it not been true , ) can this Argument have any force . Testimony is of various kinds ; but the distinction between them is so ...
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... laws of nature , a single experiment , fairly and carefully made , is usually allowed to be conclusive , because we can then pretty nearly ascertain all the circumstances operating : 54 PART 1 . ELEMENTS OF RHETORIC .
... laws of nature , a single experiment , fairly and carefully made , is usually allowed to be conclusive , because we can then pretty nearly ascertain all the circumstances operating : 54 PART 1 . ELEMENTS OF RHETORIC .
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... allowed but required in them . * For a Fable spun out to a great length becomes an Allegory , which generally satiates and disgusts ; on the other hand , a fic- titious tale , having a more direct , and therefore less strik- ing ...
... allowed but required in them . * For a Fable spun out to a great length becomes an Allegory , which generally satiates and disgusts ; on the other hand , a fic- titious tale , having a more direct , and therefore less strik- ing ...
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... allowed ) unplausible ; and this prejudice is to be removed by the Argument from Cause to Effect , * For an instance of a highly beautiful , and at the same time ar- gumentative comparison , see Appendix , [ C. ] It appears to me that ...
... allowed ) unplausible ; and this prejudice is to be removed by the Argument from Cause to Effect , * For an instance of a highly beautiful , and at the same time ar- gumentative comparison , see Appendix , [ C. ] It appears to me that ...
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... allowed to substantiate the crime , would have great weight in inducing his judges to lend an ear to the evidence . And thus , in what relates to the future also , the a priori Argument and Example , support each other , when thus used ...
... allowed to substantiate the crime , would have great weight in inducing his judges to lend an ear to the evidence . And thus , in what relates to the future also , the a priori Argument and Example , support each other , when thus used ...
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Page 114 - Among men, you see the ninety and nine toiling and scraping together a heap of superfluities for one (and this one, too, oftentimes the feeblest and worst of the whole set, a child, a woman, a madman, or a fool) ; getting nothing for themselves all the while, but a little of the coarsest of the provision, which their own industry produces ; looking quietly on, while they see the fruits of all their labour spent or spoiled ; and if one of the number take or touch a particle of the hoard, the others...
Page 149 - was " to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks, foolishness." The total change required in all the notions, habits, and systems of conduct in the first converts, constituted an obstacle to the reception of the new religion, which no other that has prevailed ever had to contend'with.
Page 341 - Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness ; and that we should not dissemble nor cloke them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father; but confess them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart; to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same, by his infinite goodness and mercy.
Page 188 - Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. If then God so clothe the grass, which is to-day in the field, and to-morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith!
Page 188 - Consider the lilies how they grow : they toil not, they spin not ; and yet I say unto you, that boloтоп in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 217 - To avoid therefore the evils of inconstancy and versatility, ten thousand times worse than those of obstinacy and the blindest prejudice, we have consecrated the state, that no man should approach to look into its defects or corruptions but with due caution...
Page 192 - These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of nature, refracted from their straight line. Indeed in the gross and complicated mass of human passions and concerns, the primitive rights of men undergo such a variety of refractions and reflections, that it becomes absurd to talk of them as if they continued in the simplicity of their original direction.
Page 78 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Page 114 - IF you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn; and if (instead of each picking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted, and no more) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got into a heap ; reserving nothing for themselves but the chaff and the refuse; keeping this heap for one, and that the weakest, perhaps worst...