The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, Volume 2John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 - Quotations |
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... knowledge ; and which he may continue to peruse , lay down , and take up at pleasure , without breaking the thread , or interrupting the chain of reasoning . " IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . II . PHILADELPHIA : LEA & BLANCHARD , SUCCESSORS TO ...
... knowledge ; and which he may continue to peruse , lay down , and take up at pleasure , without breaking the thread , or interrupting the chain of reasoning . " IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . II . PHILADELPHIA : LEA & BLANCHARD , SUCCESSORS TO ...
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... knowledge to perceive it ; and therefore he that can perceive it , hath it not.- Bishop Taylor . DI . Of Abuses . - There is a time when men will not suffer had things because their ancestors have suffered worse . There is a time when ...
... knowledge to perceive it ; and therefore he that can perceive it , hath it not.- Bishop Taylor . DI . Of Abuses . - There is a time when men will not suffer had things because their ancestors have suffered worse . There is a time when ...
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... knowledge ; and if by a ju- dicious and gradual adaptation of their institutions to the inevitable changes of opinion , they are saved from those convulsions which the pride , prejudices , and obstinacy of a few may occasion to the ...
... knowledge ; and if by a ju- dicious and gradual adaptation of their institutions to the inevitable changes of opinion , they are saved from those convulsions which the pride , prejudices , and obstinacy of a few may occasion to the ...
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... knowledge would be shorter and easier . It is indeed shorter and easier to proceed from ignorance to knowledge , than from error . They who are in the last 16 SELECT PASSAGES.
... knowledge would be shorter and easier . It is indeed shorter and easier to proceed from ignorance to knowledge , than from error . They who are in the last 16 SELECT PASSAGES.
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... knowledge , and the business of the under- standing ; whatsoever is besides that , however authorized by consent , or recommended by rarity , is nothing but ig- norance , or something worse . - Locke . DXLIX . Differences in Men ...
... knowledge , and the business of the under- standing ; whatsoever is besides that , however authorized by consent , or recommended by rarity , is nothing but ig- norance , or something worse . - Locke . DXLIX . Differences in Men ...
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