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... and disproves its own position by the very means it uses to establish it . Its
apostles take their stand upon some thrice overthrown fallacy or misapplied truth
, and reason conclusively enough , if you will 4 [ March , Classical Learning .
... and disproves its own position by the very means it uses to establish it . Its
apostles take their stand upon some thrice overthrown fallacy or misapplied truth
, and reason conclusively enough , if you will 4 [ March , Classical Learning .
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plied truth , and reason conclusively enough , if you will but grant their premises .
Man , they insist , is a creature of simple wants and impulses , and these may be
satisfied and directed without any wide or elevated knowledge . The progress of ...
plied truth , and reason conclusively enough , if you will but grant their premises .
Man , they insist , is a creature of simple wants and impulses , and these may be
satisfied and directed without any wide or elevated knowledge . The progress of ...
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Each was pronounced before a literary society , and each , we have no reason to
doubt , with an honest view to beneficial ends . But here the parallelism ceases ,
and the orators walk in divergent paths . In one of them every educated ...
Each was pronounced before a literary society , and each , we have no reason to
doubt , with an honest view to beneficial ends . But here the parallelism ceases ,
and the orators walk in divergent paths . In one of them every educated ...
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We cannot reason but in propositions . Or if the excited intellect should
sometimes leap to an intuítive result and flash upon truth , it is yet a useless result
, an unutterable , incommunicable , voiceless truth , -a waste flower in the
wilderness ...
We cannot reason but in propositions . Or if the excited intellect should
sometimes leap to an intuítive result and flash upon truth , it is yet a useless result
, an unutterable , incommunicable , voiceless truth , -a waste flower in the
wilderness ...
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... products honourable to itself and advantageous to the country . In all that
relates especially to ourselves , there is no reason to apprehend a deficiency of
accurate and philosophical VOL . XVII .-- NO . 33 . 3 moral sense . & stu !
investigation .
... products honourable to itself and advantageous to the country . In all that
relates especially to ourselves , there is no reason to apprehend a deficiency of
accurate and philosophical VOL . XVII .-- NO . 33 . 3 moral sense . & stu !
investigation .
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Bibliographic information
| Title | American Quarterly Review, Volume 17 |
| Editor | Robert Walsh |
| Publisher | Carey, Lea & Carey, 1835 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 11 Oct 2019 |
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