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... honour to propose . I am happy , however , to find this opportunity of bearing what testi- mony I can to the unprejudiced candour and impartiality with which they have conducted their difficult — their delicate investigations ; and it ...
... honour to propose . I am happy , however , to find this opportunity of bearing what testi- mony I can to the unprejudiced candour and impartiality with which they have conducted their difficult — their delicate investigations ; and it ...
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... admire , even where I dissent ; and were M. Cousin's speculations on the Absolute utterly abolished , to him would still remain the honour , of doing more himself , and of A Philosophy ; and the splendour with which he recommenced his.
... admire , even where I dissent ; and were M. Cousin's speculations on the Absolute utterly abolished , to him would still remain the honour , of doing more himself , and of A Philosophy ; and the splendour with which he recommenced his.
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... honour to have been the first , among not forgotten philosophers , virtually and intentionally , at least , to embrace ) is thus the only system on which the truth of consciousness and the possibility of know- ledge can be vindicated ...
... honour to have been the first , among not forgotten philosophers , virtually and intentionally , at least , to embrace ) is thus the only system on which the truth of consciousness and the possibility of know- ledge can be vindicated ...
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... honours , -since the re - introduction , how- ever limited , of a real examination for the first degree in arts , a ... honour , but to avoid disgrace . - Yet even this minimum was to be made less ; there was " a lower deep beneath the ...
... honours , -since the re - introduction , how- ever limited , of a real examination for the first degree in arts , a ... honour , but to avoid disgrace . - Yet even this minimum was to be made less ; there was " a lower deep beneath the ...
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... honour of pub- lishing the specimen which I had communicated to him , of a scheme of Syllogistic Notation ; and I regret to find , that this circumstance has been the occasion of some injustice , both to him and to me . To him -inasmuch ...
... honour of pub- lishing the specimen which I had communicated to him , of a scheme of Syllogistic Notation ; and I regret to find , that this circumstance has been the occasion of some injustice , both to him and to me . To him -inasmuch ...
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Page 308 - ... with their correlatives freedom of choice and responsibility — man being all this, it is at once obvious that the principal part of his being is his mental power. In Nature there is nothing great but Man, In Man there is nothing great but Mind.
Page 14 - As the conditionally limited (which we may briefly call the conditioned) is thus the only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition ; and conditional limitation is the fundamental law of the possibility of thought.