Critical Essays on a Few Subjects Connected with the History and Present Condition of Speculative PhilosophyH.B. Williams, 1842 - 352 This book contains a collection of critical essays on a few subjects connected with the history and present condition of speculative philosophy, including an essay on the transcendentalist movement in America. |
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... attempting to hide the frivolity of an idea by a pomp- ous enunciation , or to cover his retreat from a difficulty in the argument , by raising a mist of words . Though an acute reasoner , he avoids the common error of logicians , who ...
... attempting to hide the frivolity of an idea by a pomp- ous enunciation , or to cover his retreat from a difficulty in the argument , by raising a mist of words . Though an acute reasoner , he avoids the common error of logicians , who ...
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... attempt of Frederick of Prussia , to introduce among them a French manner and French taste , failed entirely . They carefully weeded from their language every French word and idiom , which the in- fluence of that monarch had brought in ...
... attempt of Frederick of Prussia , to introduce among them a French manner and French taste , failed entirely . They carefully weeded from their language every French word and idiom , which the in- fluence of that monarch had brought in ...
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... attempt to translate his doctrines into ordinary philosophical language . That , in the mist of his peculiar phraseology , he did not always perceive the true character and legitimate results of his own dogmas , is sufficiently evident ...
... attempt to translate his doctrines into ordinary philosophical language . That , in the mist of his peculiar phraseology , he did not always perceive the true character and legitimate results of his own dogmas , is sufficiently evident ...
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... attempt to be grotesque in style , by a mixture of foreign gibberish , is little better . " It is affectations , that's the humor of it . " But to hear such writings praised as mirrors of deep thought , and containing a world of philo ...
... attempt to be grotesque in style , by a mixture of foreign gibberish , is little better . " It is affectations , that's the humor of it . " But to hear such writings praised as mirrors of deep thought , and containing a world of philo ...
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... attempt to realize such a hope would constantly be postponed . But the most pernicious effect of the prose works of Coleridge must be ascribed to his fanciful and poetic mode of expression . The imagery , in which he delighted to clothe ...
... attempt to realize such a hope would constantly be postponed . But the most pernicious effect of the prose works of Coleridge must be ascribed to his fanciful and poetic mode of expression . The imagery , in which he delighted to clothe ...
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