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... probably guides him . To us , the experience of pulling a string tight suffices to demonstrate , that between any two given points there is one path shorter than every other path ; and this will amply suffice to establish the doctrine ...
... probably guides him . To us , the experience of pulling a string tight suffices to demonstrate , that between any two given points there is one path shorter than every other path ; and this will amply suffice to establish the doctrine ...
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... probably beyond my power . Yet the topic is here virtually obtruded on us . Notoriously our interpretation of our sensible experience is often delusive . When we feel a mass of lead to be " heavy , " we suppose this quality to inhere in ...
... probably beyond my power . Yet the topic is here virtually obtruded on us . Notoriously our interpretation of our sensible experience is often delusive . When we feel a mass of lead to be " heavy , " we suppose this quality to inhere in ...
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... probably all agree , that while we are dealing with deductive science , it is reasonable to interpret the phrase with PLATO but beyond mathematics , the only sciences which can plausibly be called Deductive , are Ethics and Political ...
... probably all agree , that while we are dealing with deductive science , it is reasonable to interpret the phrase with PLATO but beyond mathematics , the only sciences which can plausibly be called Deductive , are Ethics and Political ...
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... probably the reason why it is so hard to invest these branches of human thought with the form and authority of science . Many a man's first truths in religion are mere negations . CICERO , or CICERO'S COTTA , might tell us , that his ...
... probably the reason why it is so hard to invest these branches of human thought with the form and authority of science . Many a man's first truths in religion are mere negations . CICERO , or CICERO'S COTTA , might tell us , that his ...
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... Probably this also will be popularly called Close Reasoning . ( 22. ) ARGUMENTS à priori . As opposed to à posteriori , the argument à priori neglects as much as possible the special facts of a case , and deals with its outlines only ...
... Probably this also will be popularly called Close Reasoning . ( 22. ) ARGUMENTS à priori . As opposed to à posteriori , the argument à priori neglects as much as possible the special facts of a case , and deals with its outlines only ...
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Page 113 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night! O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole; O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head.
Page 109 - For all behind was dark and drear, And all before was night and fear. How many hours of night or day In those suspended pangs I lay, I could not tell ; I scarcely knew If this were human breath I drew.
Page 135 - Moored in the rifted rock, Proof to the tempest's shock, Firmer he roots him the ruder it blow; Menteith and Breadalbane, then, Echo his praise agen, Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho! ieroe!
Page 131 - They mourn, but smile at length; and, smiling, mourn: The tree will wither long before it fall ; The hull drives on, though mast and sail be torn; The roof-tree sinks, but moulders on the hall In massy hoariness; the...
Page 138 - With death-shot glowing in his fiery hands, And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon ; Restless it rolls, now fix'd and now anon Flashing afar, — and at his iron feet Destruction cowers, to mark what deeds are done ; For on this morn three potent nations meet, To shed before his shrine the blood he deems most sweet.
Page 129 - But Thou wilt heal that broken heart, Which, like the plants that throw Their fragrance from the wounded part, Breathes sweetness out of woe.
Page 116 - To town and tower, to down and dale, To tell red Flodden's dismal tale, And raise the universal wail. Tradition, legend, tune, and song, Shall many an age that wail prolong: Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife, and carnage drear, Of Flodden's fatal field, Where shiver'd was fair Scotland's spear, And broken was her shield ! XXXV.
Page 81 - True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.
Page 136 - This royal throne of kings, this scept'red isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...
Page 326 - All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls; and, in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes,) reflecting gems...