The Complete Works of Thomas Dick, Band 1Sumner and Goodman, 1849 |
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... never performed , were substituted in place of the authenticated history of mankind . The learning which then prevailed , under the name of philosophy and of scholastic theology , consisted chiefly in vain disquisitions and reasonings ...
... never performed , were substituted in place of the authenticated history of mankind . The learning which then prevailed , under the name of philosophy and of scholastic theology , consisted chiefly in vain disquisitions and reasonings ...
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... never read - if another tenth are inca- pable of application , from frivolity , or dissipa tion , or imbecility , -it results , that the small share of good sense of which our species is ca- pable , can only reside in a small fraction ...
... never read - if another tenth are inca- pable of application , from frivolity , or dissipa tion , or imbecility , -it results , that the small share of good sense of which our species is ca- pable , can only reside in a small fraction ...
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... 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 truths which the history ...
... 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 truths which the history ...
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... never affect the operation of moral causes , or the qualities of the mind . Even although it were admitted that the hea- venly bodies have an influence over the desti- nies of the human race , yet we have no data whatever by which to ...
... never affect the operation of moral causes , or the qualities of the mind . Even although it were admitted that the hea- venly bodies have an influence over the desti- nies of the human race , yet we have no data whatever by which to ...
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... never be eradicated , and has endered them conoards in the dark , during all the subsequent periods of their lives . That many of the superstitious opinions and practices above alluded to , still prevail even within the limits of the ...
... never be eradicated , and has endered them conoards in the dark , during all the subsequent periods of their lives . That many of the superstitious opinions and practices above alluded to , still prevail even within the limits of the ...
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