Sir William Hamilton: The Man and His Philosophy : Two Lectures Delivered Before the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution, January and February 1883W. Blackwood, 1883 - 68 pages |
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... The Scots , " said Erasmus , " take a natural delight in dialectical subtleties ; and the names of Major , Lockhart , and Wedderburn in the A " " University of Paris , Mark Duncan in Saumur , Robert REESE THE OF LIBRARY LECTURE I. ...
... The Scots , " said Erasmus , " take a natural delight in dialectical subtleties ; and the names of Major , Lockhart , and Wedderburn in the A " " University of Paris , Mark Duncan in Saumur , Robert REESE THE OF LIBRARY LECTURE I. ...
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... nature and meaning of the external world , the nature and meaning of God Him- self , and of our relations to Him . And no student of philosophy , no historian of philosophy , can either fairly or intelligently pass by the contribution ...
... nature and meaning of the external world , the nature and meaning of God Him- self , and of our relations to Him . And no student of philosophy , no historian of philosophy , can either fairly or intelligently pass by the contribution ...
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... natural and historical tendency of the Scottish intellect to reasoning and discussion on first principles . That Scottish specula- tive thought was a product of the universities , that it was given first to a body of students in the way ...
... natural and historical tendency of the Scottish intellect to reasoning and discussion on first principles . That Scottish specula- tive thought was a product of the universities , that it was given first to a body of students in the way ...
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... nature and work ; it largely moulded all his philosophical labours and thought , and it quickened him , in the early years of his youth and manhood , to special inquiry into the history of his own line . The result was that he succeeded ...
... nature and work ; it largely moulded all his philosophical labours and thought , and it quickened him , in the early years of his youth and manhood , to special inquiry into the history of his own line . The result was that he succeeded ...
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... nature and scope of our knowledge of God , the limits of human thinking and knowledge . Withal , there are touches of literary beauty and grace , antithesis , the power of contrast and pathos , that charm amid the keen cold dialectic ...
... nature and scope of our knowledge of God , the limits of human thinking and knowledge . Withal , there are touches of literary beauty and grace , antithesis , the power of contrast and pathos , that charm amid the keen cold dialectic ...
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