The Public Life of Thomas Cooper, 1783-1839 |
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... position in the state col- lege , but in most cases his prominence and influence were chiefly due to the versatility of his mind and the aggres- siveness of his nature . His failures are in part attribut- able to the fact that he so ...
... position in the state col- lege , but in most cases his prominence and influence were chiefly due to the versatility of his mind and the aggres- siveness of his nature . His failures are in part attribut- able to the fact that he so ...
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... position of financial independence . He doubtless gained something by his exertions as a barrister and manufac- turer and is said to have acquired a considerable fortune by his first marriage , but he probably got something besides his ...
... position of financial independence . He doubtless gained something by his exertions as a barrister and manufac- turer and is said to have acquired a considerable fortune by his first marriage , but he probably got something besides his ...
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... position was the de- pendence of the psychical upon the physical . " He ap- proached the subject from the point of view of physiology rather than metaphysics , of which he was ever suspicious and scornful . He was convinced that mental ...
... position was the de- pendence of the psychical upon the physical . " He ap- proached the subject from the point of view of physiology rather than metaphysics , of which he was ever suspicious and scornful . He was convinced that mental ...
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... position was perfectly consistent with a belief in a future state of retribution and the doctrines of Christianity and that all the materialists with whom he was acquainted were Christians . " References to Hartley and Priestley may ...
... position was perfectly consistent with a belief in a future state of retribution and the doctrines of Christianity and that all the materialists with whom he was acquainted were Christians . " References to Hartley and Priestley may ...
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... position was both acceptable to reason and consistent with the Scriptures , and attempted an impos- sible harmonization of reason and authority . " He was not yet ready to go the full length of historical criticism , although he refused ...
... position was both acceptable to reason and consistent with the Scriptures , and attempted an impos- sible harmonization of reason and authority . " He was not yet ready to go the full length of historical criticism , although he refused ...
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Page 52 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field...
Page 21 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 405 - A Treatise on the Law of Libel and the Liberty of the Press; Showing the Origin, Use, and Abuse of the Law of Libel: With Copious Notes and References to Authorities in Great Britain and the United States: As Applicable to Individuals and to Political and Ecclesiastical Bodies and Principles.
Page 287 - inferior variety of the human species; and not capable of the same improvement as the whites." Dr. SC Cartwright of the University of Louisiana insisted that the capacities of the Negro adult for learning were equal to those of a white infant; and the Negro could properly perform certain physiological functions only when under the control of white men. Because of the Negro's inferiority...
Page 307 - Is it worth our while to continue this union of states, where the north demand to be our masters, and we are required to be their tributaries...
Page 410 - An Account of the Trial of Thomas Cooper of Northumberland on a Charge of Libel Against the President of the United States; Taken in Short Hand, with a Preface, Notes, and Appendix, by Thomas Cooper (Philadelphia, John Bioren, printer, 1800).
Page 352 - I am not yet conquered, and expect yet to bivouac on the field of Battle. I have no objection to a moral governor of the universe, but how came he in that character to create the Priesthood ? Moral ! You might as well apply squareness to virtue. I wish I knew how to account for moral and physical evil, and then I should be able to account for malaria, dyspepsia, yellow fever, the plague, cholera, rattlesnakes, mosquitoes and faquirs of all classes and orders, asiatic and european, papist and protestant.
Page 124 - But in the present state of affairs, the press is open to those who will praise, while the threats of the law hang over those who blame the conduct of the men in power.
Page 402 - AN APPEAL to the Government and Congress of the United States, against the Depredations committed by American Privateers, on the Commerce of Nations at peace with us. By an American Citizen.
Page 198 - ... Judge Cooper, of Pennsylvania, a political refugee with Dr. Priestley from the fires and mobs of Birmingham. He is one of the ablest men in America, and that in several branches of science. The law opinion which he mentions I have received, and a more luminous one has not been seen. The best pieces on political economy which have been written in this country were by Cooper.