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" ... of this or that conclusion, — there may yet be, from one or other of the disturbing causes adverted to, a momentary eclipse of that light in which the soul seemed to dwell ; — a momentary vibration of that judgment which we so often flattered... "
The Edinburgh Review - Page 213
1847
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 10

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1847 - 606 pages
...preponderance of evidence in favor of this or that conclusion, — there may yet be, from one or other of the disturbing causes adverted to, a momentary eclipse...no more argues the want of habitual faith, than the variation? of the compass argue the severance of the connexion between the magnet and the pole ; or,...
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Reason and Faith, and Other Miscellanies of Henry Rogers

Henry Rogers - Faith and reason - 1853 - 470 pages
...preponderance of evidence in favor of this or that conclusion, — there may yet be, from one or other of the disturbing causes adverted to, a momentary eclipse...variations of the compass argue the severance of the connection between the magnet and the pole ; or than the oscillations of the " rocking stone " argue...
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Reason and Faith, and Other Miscellanies of Henry Rogers

Henry Rogers - Faith and reason - 1853 - 478 pages
...preponderance of evidence in favor of this or that conclusion, — there may yet be, from one or other of the disturbing causes adverted to, a momentary eclipse...variations of the compass argue the severance of the connection between the magnet and the pole ; or than the oscillations of the "rocking stone" argue...
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Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 564 pages
...preponderance of evidence in favour of this or that conclusion, — there may yet be, from one or other of the disturbing causes adverted to, a momentary eclipse...variations of the compass argue the severance of the connection between the magnet and the pole ; or, than the oscillations of the ' rocking stone' argue...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 108

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1856 - 520 pages
...Essay on the Genius of Prscal, has remarked, that such a disturbance of the intellectual atmosphere no more argues the want of habitual faith, than the...magnet and the pole ; or, than the oscillations of the " rocking-stone" argue that the solid mass can be heaved from its bed : a child may shake, but a giant...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 108

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1856 - 520 pages
...time, rise to dispute the empire of the tmderstanding in the formation of our judgments — causing a momentary eclipse of that light in which the soul seemed to dwell — Mr. Henry Rogers, in his very able Essay on the Genius of Pascal, has remarked, that such a disturbance...
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Bacon's Essays: With Annotations

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...preponderance of evidence in favour of this or that conclusion, — there may yet be, from one or other of the disturbing causes adverted to, a momentary eclipse...momentary vibration of that judgment which we so often nattered ourselves was poised for ever. Yet this no more argues the want of habitual faith than the...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 40

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 588 pages
...time, rise to dispute the empire of the understanding in the formation of our judgments — causing a momentary eclipse of that light in which the soul seemed to dwell — Mr. Henry Rogers, in his very able Essay on the Genius of Pascal, has remarked, that such a disturbance...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 40

American literature - 1857 - 602 pages
...time, rise to dispute the empire of the understanding in the formation of our judgments — causing a momentary eclipse of that light in which the soul seemed to dwell — Mr. Henry Rogers, hi his very able Essay on the Genius of Pascal, has remarked, that such a disturbance...
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Introductory Lessons on Mind

Richard Whately - Ethics - 1859 - 250 pages
...preponderance of evidence in favour of this or that conclusion, — there may yet be, from one or other of the disturbing causes adverted to, a momentary eclipse...magnet and the pole ; or than the oscillations of the ' rockingstone' argue that the solid mass can be heaved from its bed. A. child may shake, but a giant...
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