Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform: Chiefly from the Edinburgh Review; Cor., Vindicated, Enl., in Notes and Appendices |
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... learned French translator , has added to the articles , published by him under the name of " Frag- ments de Philosophie , " sundry important contributions of his own , an Introduction , an Appendix , and Notes . Of the last especially I ...
... learned French translator , has added to the articles , published by him under the name of " Frag- ments de Philosophie , " sundry important contributions of his own , an Introduction , an Appendix , and Notes . Of the last especially I ...
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... learned divine . But it has come to this : For centuries , the ad- visers of the Crown have not only tolerated in the Eng- lish Establishment the one example in christendom of a national clergy without a clerical education ; but might ...
... learned divine . But it has come to this : For centuries , the ad- visers of the Crown have not only tolerated in the Eng- lish Establishment the one example in christendom of a national clergy without a clerical education ; but might ...
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... learned Menage was so delighted with the verse , as to declare that he would give his best benefice ( and he enjoyed some fat ones ) to have written it . It applies not only with real , but with verbal , accuracy to the German ...
... learned Menage was so delighted with the verse , as to declare that he would give his best benefice ( and he enjoyed some fat ones ) to have written it . It applies not only with real , but with verbal , accuracy to the German ...
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... learned ignorance " the most difficult acquirement - perhaps , indeed , the consummation , of knowledge . In the words of a forgotten , but acute philosopher : - " Magna , immo maxima pars sapentiæ est , — quædam æquo animo nescire ...
... learned ignorance " the most difficult acquirement - perhaps , indeed , the consummation , of knowledge . In the words of a forgotten , but acute philosopher : - " Magna , immo maxima pars sapentiæ est , — quædam æquo animo nescire ...
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... learned and unlearned agree , that in Memory and Imagination , naught of which we are conscious lies beyond the sphere of self , and that in these acts the object known is only relative to a real- ity supposed to be . Nothing but Reid's ...
... learned and unlearned agree , that in Memory and Imagination , naught of which we are conscious lies beyond the sphere of self , and that in these acts the object known is only relative to a real- ity supposed to be . Nothing but Reid's ...
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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.