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... employing them , and at the same time cultivate the two principal faculties of the mind , to wit perspicacity , by ... employ our eyes . For he who attempts to view a multitude of objects with one and the same glance , sees none of ...
... employing them , and at the same time cultivate the two principal faculties of the mind , to wit perspicacity , by ... employ our eyes . For he who attempts to view a multitude of objects with one and the same glance , sees none of ...
Page 67
... employ the very briefest symbols , in order that , after distinctly examining each point in accordance with Rule IX , we may be able , as Rule XI bids us do , to traverse them all with an extremely rapid motion of our thought and ...
... employ the very briefest symbols , in order that , after distinctly examining each point in accordance with Rule IX , we may be able , as Rule XI bids us do , to traverse them all with an extremely rapid motion of our thought and ...
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... employ all the rules of his art in correcting little by little first a trait here , then a trait there , and finally ... employ it ; but you are not ignorant that the opinions first received by our imagination remain so deeply imprinted ...
... employ all the rules of his art in correcting little by little first a trait here , then a trait there , and finally ... employ it ; but you are not ignorant that the opinions first received by our imagination remain so deeply imprinted ...
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