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... question has taken its name from that sense . All men are agreed to call vinegar sour , honey sweet , and aloes bitter ; and as they are all agreed in finding these qualities in those objects , they do not in the least differ con ...
... question has taken its name from that sense . All men are agreed to call vinegar sour , honey sweet , and aloes bitter ; and as they are all agreed in finding these qualities in those objects , they do not in the least differ con ...
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... question may stop here , and that the master- piece of a great hand may please him no more than the middling performance of a vulgar artist : and this not for want of better or higher relish , but because all men do not observe with ...
... question may stop here , and that the master- piece of a great hand may please him no more than the middling performance of a vulgar artist : and this not for want of better or higher relish , but because all men do not observe with ...
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... question with the utmost ex- actness ; and this , I take it , is what gives mathematical knowledge a greater certainty than any other . But in things whose excess is not judged by greater or smaller , as smoothness and roughness ...
... question with the utmost ex- actness ; and this , I take it , is what gives mathematical knowledge a greater certainty than any other . But in things whose excess is not judged by greater or smaller , as smoothness and roughness ...
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Edmund Burke. vantage . In the question about the tables , the marble- polisher will unquestionably determine the most accurately . But notwithstanding this want of a common measure for settling many disputes relative to the senses , and ...
Edmund Burke. vantage . In the question about the tables , the marble- polisher will unquestionably determine the most accurately . But notwithstanding this want of a common measure for settling many disputes relative to the senses , and ...
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... question ; and it is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind , that mathematical speculations derive some of their most con- siderable advantages ; because there is nothing to interest the imagination ; because the ...
... question ; and it is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind , that mathematical speculations derive some of their most con- siderable advantages ; because there is nothing to interest the imagination ; because the ...
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