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... interests of truth , " & c . Such are the struggles of a noble mind to discover that it has not erred in its researches ; such its reluc- tance to see that its imagined intellectual wealth is real poverty , that the coin is counterfeit ...
... interests of truth , " & c . Such are the struggles of a noble mind to discover that it has not erred in its researches ; such its reluc- tance to see that its imagined intellectual wealth is real poverty , that the coin is counterfeit ...
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... interest . The resistance by the lover of truth , from the belief that his opinion is well founded , is of no moment ; convince him of his error and the illusion passes away . To him it is indifferent whether the three angles of a ...
... interest . The resistance by the lover of truth , from the belief that his opinion is well founded , is of no moment ; convince him of his error and the illusion passes away . To him it is indifferent whether the three angles of a ...
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... common minds , of which instances occur every moment . † * Ante , p . 47 . † A whimsical instance is mentioned by Smollet , in his novel of Peregrine Pickle , where Attachment to opinion from interest appears in a variety of 50.
... common minds , of which instances occur every moment . † * Ante , p . 47 . † A whimsical instance is mentioned by Smollet , in his novel of Peregrine Pickle , where Attachment to opinion from interest appears in a variety of 50.
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Basil Montagu. Attachment to opinion from interest appears in a variety of forms : sometimes it manifests itself in the love of money ; -sometimes in the fear of the inconvenience which will attend the transition from one custom to ...
Basil Montagu. Attachment to opinion from interest appears in a variety of forms : sometimes it manifests itself in the love of money ; -sometimes in the fear of the inconvenience which will attend the transition from one custom to ...
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... interest of sixpence . A rule well understood by philosophers and poets : " When a man's interests are concerned , he will con- tend , " says Hobbes , " for any absurdity ; he will contend that two and two do not make four . " And ...
... interest of sixpence . A rule well understood by philosophers and poets : " When a man's interests are concerned , he will con- tend , " says Hobbes , " for any absurdity ; he will contend that two and two do not make four . " And ...
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Page 12 - Of law, there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage : the very least as feeling her care ; and the greatest, as not exempted from her power.
Page 82 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Page 52 - Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands...
Page 195 - As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress, that, as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge; and that is all I desire.
Page 259 - But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.
Page 268 - From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say, that he will or will not stand between the Crown and the subject arraigned in the Court where he daily sits to practise, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.
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Page 185 - For this is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance ever should arise in the Commonwealth, that let no man in this world expect ; but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
Page 316 - But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.
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