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 | John Milton - 1928 - Liczba stron: 408
...all times and of all places; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary;...speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Physiological learning is of such rare emergence that one man may know another half his life without... | |
 | John Milton - 1928 - Liczba stron: 402
...all times and of all places; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary;...speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Physiological learning is of such rare emergence that one man may know another half his life without... | |
 | 1906 - Liczba stron: 894
...all times and of all places; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary;...speculations upon matter are voluntary and at leisure. Physiological learning is of such rare emergence that one man may know another half his life without... | |
 | 1917 - Liczba stron: 734
...all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary...speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Physiological learning is of such rare emergence that one may know another half his life without being... | |
 | P. B. Medawar - 2008 - Liczba stron: 416
...all times and of all places; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary;...speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Physical knowledge is of such rare emergence, that one man may know another half his life without being... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - Liczba stron: 312
...all times and of all places; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary;...speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Physical knowledge is of such rare emergence, that one man may know another half his life without being... | |
 | Aileen Douglas - 1995 - Liczba stron: 244
...important questions are moral, not physiological. The "hydraulic engine" appears only to remind us that "our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary;...our speculations upon matter are voluntary and at leisure."1s Humans and animals may share, as Descartes argues, certain characteristics with a watch,... | |
 | Maria Antonaccio, William Schweiker - 1996 - Liczba stron: 286
...fuller quotation from Johnson: "We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary;...speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure." Goldberg notes that Johnson's choice of the word "moralist" reflects his kind of Christianity; but... | |
 | Anne Campbell, Steven Muncer - 1998 - Liczba stron: 436
...Emler University of Oxford. UK We are perpetually moralists. but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary:...speculations upon matter are voluntary and at leisure. (Samuel Johnson) The average 15-year-old can articulate sophisticated and complex moral arguments about... | |
 | Scott D. Evans - 1999 - Liczba stron: 180
...mind. . . . Prudence and Justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places. . . . Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary;...our speculations upon matter are voluntary and at leisure.30 Johnson's paragraph has several levels of significance, and we shall return to it later... | |
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