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... kind of security even for the highest merit . But at Athens , the nicest and best studied behaviour was not a sufficient guard for a man of great capacity . Some of their bravest com- manders were obliged to fly their country , some to ...
... kind of security even for the highest merit . But at Athens , the nicest and best studied behaviour was not a sufficient guard for a man of great capacity . Some of their bravest com- manders were obliged to fly their country , some to ...
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... kind of knowledge , yet freely con- fesses its great importance to the human understanding ; " Est animorum ingeniorumque nostrorum naturale quoddam quasi pabulum consideratio contemplatioque nature . " If we can direct the lights we ...
... kind of knowledge , yet freely con- fesses its great importance to the human understanding ; " Est animorum ingeniorumque nostrorum naturale quoddam quasi pabulum consideratio contemplatioque nature . " If we can direct the lights we ...
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... kind and degree , that nothing can be more in- determinate . All the natural powers in man , which I know , that are conversant about external objects , are the senses ; the imagination ; and the judgment . And first with regard to the ...
... kind and degree , that nothing can be more in- determinate . All the natural powers in man , which I know , that are conversant about external objects , are the senses ; the imagination ; and the judgment . And first with regard to the ...
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... kind , will pro- duce different effects ; which would be highly absurd . Let us first consider this point in the sense of taste , and the rather , as the faculty in question has taken its name from that sense . All men are agreed to ...
... kind , will pro- duce different effects ; which would be highly absurd . Let us first consider this point in the sense of taste , and the rather , as the faculty in question has taken its name from that sense . All men are agreed to ...
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... kind wrong in his notions , but absolutely mad . Ex- ceptions of this sort , in either way , do not at all impeach our general rule , nor make us conclude that men have various principles concerning the relations of quantity or the ...
... kind wrong in his notions , but absolutely mad . Ex- ceptions of this sort , in either way , do not at all impeach our general rule , nor make us conclude that men have various principles concerning the relations of quantity or the ...
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