The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen5David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 páginas |
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... ideas are universal , eternal , and immutable . They are universal : for when I say it is impossible to be and not to be ; the whole is bigger than a part of it ; a line perfectly circu- lar has no straight parts ; between two points ...
... ideas are universal , eternal , and immutable . They are universal : for when I say it is impossible to be and not to be ; the whole is bigger than a part of it ; a line perfectly circu- lar has no straight parts ; between two points ...
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... idea of the infinite is in me like that of numbers , lines , circles , a whole , and a part . The changing our ideas would be , in effect , the annihilating reason itself . Let us judge and make an esti- mate of our greatness by the ...
... idea of the infinite is in me like that of numbers , lines , circles , a whole , and a part . The changing our ideas would be , in effect , the annihilating reason itself . Let us judge and make an esti- mate of our greatness by the ...
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... idea . We know it so well that we exactly distinguish it from whatever it is not ; and that no subtlety can palm upon us any other object in its room . We are so well acquainted with it that we reject from it any propriety that denotes ...
... idea . We know it so well that we exactly distinguish it from whatever it is not ; and that no subtlety can palm upon us any other object in its room . We are so well acquainted with it that we reject from it any propriety that denotes ...
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... idea , attach itself closely to the living and active , and follow hard upon her footsteps . And all knowledge which reason has wrung from Nature shall be preserved in the course of the times , and become the founda- tion of further ...
... idea , attach itself closely to the living and active , and follow hard upon her footsteps . And all knowledge which reason has wrung from Nature shall be preserved in the course of the times , and become the founda- tion of further ...
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... were the qualifications expressed by it to be furnished by a milliner , a tailor , or a periwig maker ; no , nor even by the dancing master himself . According to the idea I myself conceive from this word , I should 1730 HENRY FIELDING.
... were the qualifications expressed by it to be furnished by a milliner , a tailor , or a periwig maker ; no , nor even by the dancing master himself . According to the idea I myself conceive from this word , I should 1730 HENRY FIELDING.
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