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... reason : it cer- tainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From ... reasons that moved him to follow the violent inclination of his own mind , which , in the greatest throng of his ...
... reason : it cer- tainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From ... reasons that moved him to follow the violent inclination of his own mind , which , in the greatest throng of his ...
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... Reason are no mean speci- mens of metaphysical poetry . The stanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those which are intended to exalt the human faculties , reason has its proper task assigned it ; that of judging , not ...
... Reason are no mean speci- mens of metaphysical poetry . The stanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those which are intended to exalt the human faculties , reason has its proper task assigned it ; that of judging , not ...
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... reason is always reason ; they have an intrinsic and unalterable value , and constitute that intellectual gold which defies destruction ; but gold may be so concealed in baser matter , that only a chemist can recover it ; sense may be ...
... reason is always reason ; they have an intrinsic and unalterable value , and constitute that intellectual gold which defies destruction ; but gold may be so concealed in baser matter , that only a chemist can recover it ; sense may be ...
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... reason for doubting . One part of his method deserves general imitation . He was careful to instruct his scholars in religion . Every Sunday was spent upon theology ; of which he dictated a short system , gathered from the writers that ...
... reason for doubting . One part of his method deserves general imitation . He was careful to instruct his scholars in religion . Every Sunday was spent upon theology ; of which he dictated a short system , gathered from the writers that ...
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... reason , than that the highest mind should have the sovereign power . Such , sir , are you by general confession ; such are the things achieved by you , the greatest and most glorious of our countrymen , the director of our public ...
... reason , than that the highest mind should have the sovereign power . Such , sir , are you by general confession ; such are the things achieved by you , the greatest and most glorious of our countrymen , the director of our public ...
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