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It was known in times of old , it has been for ages past practised by the most barbarous nations , indeed ( and I have personal experience for the ground of my assertion ) there is not a teacher who has not , more or less , put it in ...
It was known in times of old , it has been for ages past practised by the most barbarous nations , indeed ( and I have personal experience for the ground of my assertion ) there is not a teacher who has not , more or less , put it in ...
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But who is so blind as not to see , that what he represents to us as a grand mystery , not known till he discovered it , could never be concealed from any man ; since every man must apprehend , that the matter of which a table is made ...
But who is so blind as not to see , that what he represents to us as a grand mystery , not known till he discovered it , could never be concealed from any man ; since every man must apprehend , that the matter of which a table is made ...
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This is that which Aristotle calls begging of the question , which we manifestly see to be contrary to reason since in all arguments , that which serves for proof , ought to be more clear and known than the thing which we would prove .
This is that which Aristotle calls begging of the question , which we manifestly see to be contrary to reason since in all arguments , that which serves for proof , ought to be more clear and known than the thing which we would prove .
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The same philosophers teach us , that vessels full of water crack when the water is frozen , because the water closes itself , and leaves a void place which nature cannot endure ; whereas it is well known that those vessels break ...
The same philosophers teach us , that vessels full of water crack when the water is frozen , because the water closes itself , and leaves a void place which nature cannot endure ; whereas it is well known that those vessels break ...
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... was a pretty fair representative of the greater part of his countrymen in the lower conditions of life ; and , as I am sure he would have done better had he known more , I cannot help forming this opinion of the Irish people .
... was a pretty fair representative of the greater part of his countrymen in the lower conditions of life ; and , as I am sure he would have done better had he known more , I cannot help forming this opinion of the Irish people .
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Page 197 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Page 322 - God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew : for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till, the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
Page 309 - ... twere the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now, this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page 49 - tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and, while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Page 163 - As long as boys and girls run about in the dirt, and trundle hoops together, they are both precisely alike. If you catch up one-half of these creatures, and train them to a particular set of actions and opinions, and the other half to a perfectly opposite set, of course their understandings will differ as one or the other sort of occupations has called this or that talent into action.
Page 169 - Then women have, of course, all ignorant men for enemies to their instruction, who being bound (as they think), in point of sex, to know more, are not well pleased, in point of fact, to know less. But among men of sense and liberal politeness, a woman who has successfully cultivated her mind, without diminishing the gentleness and propriety of her manners, is always sure to meet with a respect and attention bordering upon enthusiasm.
Page 123 - Oh Death ! where is thy sting ? Oh Grave ! where is thy victory ? The sting of Death is sin, and the strength of sin is the Law.
Page 170 - ... modesty and the refined manners of women to their being well taught in moral and religious duty, to the hazardous situation in which they are placed, to that perpetual vigilance which it is their duty to exercise over thought, word, and action, and to that cultivation of the mild virtues which those who cultivate the stern and magnanimous virtues expect at their hands.
Page 286 - ... why the disproportion in knowledge between the two sexes should be so great, when the inequality in natural talents is so small; or why the understanding of women should be lavished upon trifles, when nature has made it capable of higher and better things, we profess ourselves not able to understand.
Page 204 - And the Lord said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
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| Title | The Enquirer: Or, Literary, Mathematical, and Philosophical Repository ..., Volume 2 |
| Editors | William Marrat, Pishey Thompson |
| Publisher | Whittingham and Rowland., 1812 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 Jun 2007 |
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