Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review: In Five Volumes, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1850 - 402 pagina's |
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Pagina 3
... caused more just surprise . But we will not go into the discussion of these points . The book , were it far more orthodox or far more heretical than it is , would not much edify or corrupt the present gene- ration . The men of our time ...
... caused more just surprise . But we will not go into the discussion of these points . The book , were it far more orthodox or far more heretical than it is , would not much edify or corrupt the present gene- ration . The men of our time ...
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... cause . The fact is , that common observers reason from the pro- gress of the experimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more ...
... cause . The fact is , that common observers reason from the pro- gress of the experimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more ...
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... cause and partly the effect of a corresponding change in the nature of their intellectual operations , of a change by which science gains and poetry loses . Generalisation is necessary to the advancement of knowledge ; but particularly ...
... cause and partly the effect of a corresponding change in the nature of their intellectual operations , of a change by which science gains and poetry loses . Generalisation is necessary to the advancement of knowledge ; but particularly ...
Pagina 21
... causes . We therefore infer that there exists something which is not material . But of this something we have no idea . We can define it only by negatives . We can reason about it only by symbols . We use the word ; but we have no image ...
... causes . We therefore infer that there exists something which is not material . But of this something we have no idea . We can define it only by negatives . We can reason about it only by symbols . We use the word ; but we have no image ...
Pagina 30
... cause , Oldmixon for instance , and Catherine Macaulay , have , to say the least , been more distinguished by zeal than either by candour or by skill . On the other side are the most authoritative and the most popular historical works ...
... cause , Oldmixon for instance , and Catherine Macaulay , have , to say the least , been more distinguished by zeal than either by candour or by skill . On the other side are the most authoritative and the most popular historical works ...
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Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review Thomas Babington Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1850 |
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