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... human understanding perplexes itself , or makes not a sober and advantageous use of the real helps within its reach , whence manifold ignorance and inconveniences arise , he was determined to employ his utmost endeavors toward restoring ...
... human understanding perplexes itself , or makes not a sober and advantageous use of the real helps within its reach , whence manifold ignorance and inconveniences arise , he was determined to employ his utmost endeavors toward restoring ...
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... human knowledge from a firm and solid basis . This may at first seem an infinite scheme , unequal to human abilities , yet it will be found more sound and judi- cious than the course hitherto pursued , as tending to some issue ; whereas ...
... human knowledge from a firm and solid basis . This may at first seem an infinite scheme , unequal to human abilities , yet it will be found more sound and judi- cious than the course hitherto pursued , as tending to some issue ; whereas ...
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... human understanding ; thus rather choosing to ac- cuse the common state of men and things , than make con- fession of themselves . It is also frequent with them to adjudge that impossible in an art , which they find that art does not ...
... human understanding ; thus rather choosing to ac- cuse the common state of men and things , than make con- fession of themselves . It is also frequent with them to adjudge that impossible in an art , which they find that art does not ...
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... human race by a new act of his bounty . We likewise humbly beseech him that what is human may not clash with what is divine ; and that when the ways of the senses are opened , and a greater natural light set up in the mind , nothing of ...
... human race by a new act of his bounty . We likewise humbly beseech him that what is human may not clash with what is divine ; and that when the ways of the senses are opened , and a greater natural light set up in the mind , nothing of ...
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... human , a full accom- plishment cannot be expected in a single age , and must therefore be commended to posterity . Nor could we hope to succeed , if we arrogantly searched for the sciences in the narrow cells of the human understanding ...
... human , a full accom- plishment cannot be expected in a single age , and must therefore be commended to posterity . Nor could we hope to succeed , if we arrogantly searched for the sciences in the narrow cells of the human understanding ...
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