The Complete Works of Thomas Dick, Band 1Sumner and Goodman, 1849 |
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... faculties for observing facts . Anecdote of Sir I. Newton . Extraordinary powers of intellect not necessary for making discoveries in science . Ample field of investigation still remains . Discoveries would be nearly in proportion to ...
... faculties for observing facts . Anecdote of Sir I. Newton . Extraordinary powers of intellect not necessary for making discoveries in science . Ample field of investigation still remains . Discoveries would be nearly in proportion to ...
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... faculties they now or ever will enjoy , yet those noble powers seem either to have lain in a great mea- sure dormant , or , when roused into action , to have been employed chiefly in malignant and destructive operations , Hence the ...
... faculties they now or ever will enjoy , yet those noble powers seem either to have lain in a great mea- sure dormant , or , when roused into action , to have been employed chiefly in malignant and destructive operations , Hence the ...
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... faculties are unable to resolve . Sophisms , falsehoods , and bold as- severations were held forth as demonstrations ; a pompous display of words was substituted in the place of things ; eloquence consisted in vague and futile ...
... faculties are unable to resolve . Sophisms , falsehoods , and bold as- severations were held forth as demonstrations ; a pompous display of words was substituted in the place of things ; eloquence consisted in vague and futile ...
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... faculties in those trains of thought and active exercises which are worthy of an intellectual nature ! For , in so far as the attention of mankind is absorbed merely in making provision for animal subsistence , and in gratifying the ...
... faculties in those trains of thought and active exercises which are worthy of an intellectual nature ! For , in so far as the attention of mankind is absorbed merely in making provision for animal subsistence , and in gratifying the ...
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... faculties of man have never been thoroughly directed to the pursuit of objects worthy of the dignity of rational and immortal natures - and that the most pernicious effects have flowed from the perversion of their mental powers , are ...
... faculties of man have never been thoroughly directed to the pursuit of objects worthy of the dignity of rational and immortal natures - and that the most pernicious effects have flowed from the perversion of their mental powers , are ...
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