Critical Essays on a Few Subjects: Connected with the History and Present Condition of Speculative PhilosophyH. B. Williams, 1842 - 352 |
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... expression is as homely in the latter case , as in the former . His style is never or namented but by accident , nor terse but from the nature of the argument . He uses perfect good faith with the reader , never attempting to hide the ...
... expression is as homely in the latter case , as in the former . His style is never or namented but by accident , nor terse but from the nature of the argument . He uses perfect good faith with the reader , never attempting to hide the ...
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... expression , was paramount among English philosophers . None adopted his doctrines to their full extent . His lively pupil , Shaftesbury , and others impugned them as soon as published . Hume , the French school of Condillac and ...
... expression , was paramount among English philosophers . None adopted his doctrines to their full extent . His lively pupil , Shaftesbury , and others impugned them as soon as published . Hume , the French school of Condillac and ...
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... expression ; in this way only , are polite letters significant of the genius of the people among whom they have their birth . Cosmopolitism , if we may be allowed the word , does not belong to the external forms of literature , though ...
... expression ; in this way only , are polite letters significant of the genius of the people among whom they have their birth . Cosmopolitism , if we may be allowed the word , does not belong to the external forms of literature , though ...
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... expression has the semblance of originality of thought . A phrase from a Latin poet may appear in the original to convey a striking and profound remark , and yet seem utterly trite and puerile in the translation . Most of the favorite ...
... expression has the semblance of originality of thought . A phrase from a Latin poet may appear in the original to convey a striking and profound remark , and yet seem utterly trite and puerile in the translation . Most of the favorite ...
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... expressing these re- lations with conciseness and elegance . What one language gives by a word , another must ... expressions . The necessity of increasing the number of philosophical terms is therefore a false pretence . At the utmost ...
... expressing these re- lations with conciseness and elegance . What one language gives by a word , another must ... expressions . The necessity of increasing the number of philosophical terms is therefore a false pretence . At the utmost ...
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