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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... language ; and many of them are further veiled in an obscure , intricate , and repulsive termi- nology . The few translations , that have appeared , are not executed with much skill , and contain , at the most , but the mere fragment of ...
... language ; and many of them are further veiled in an obscure , intricate , and repulsive termi- nology . The few translations , that have appeared , are not executed with much skill , and contain , at the most , but the mere fragment of ...
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... language , as a lawyer would make in settling the title deeds of an estate . Such a procedure aids not only the comprehension , but the solution , of metaphysical doubts . Difficulties vanish as language becomes less technical and ...
... language , as a lawyer would make in settling the title deeds of an estate . Such a procedure aids not only the comprehension , but the solution , of metaphysical doubts . Difficulties vanish as language becomes less technical and ...
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... language , are found in the writings of all to whom we have alluded . They imitated neither the eloquent dreams of Plato , nor the mystical refinements of Plato's commentators . The mind was to them a subject of experiment and ...
... language , are found in the writings of all to whom we have alluded . They imitated neither the eloquent dreams of Plato , nor the mystical refinements of Plato's commentators . The mind was to them a subject of experiment and ...
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... language and fascinating literature of Germany . The characteristics of this last throw great light on the mind of the remarkable people to whom it belongs . Its extraordi- nary freshness and originality are more consonant with the ...
... language and fascinating literature of Germany . The characteristics of this last throw great light on the mind of the remarkable people to whom it belongs . Its extraordi- nary freshness and originality are more consonant with the ...
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... language with greater ease than their native style . The history of English literature is full of instruction on this point . Foreign influence has ever proved its bane . The reign of Queen Anne was signalized by the triumph of French ...
... language with greater ease than their native style . The history of English literature is full of instruction on this point . Foreign influence has ever proved its bane . The reign of Queen Anne was signalized by the triumph of French ...
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