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... proper exclusions and rejections . Nor is this all ; for we likewise lay the foundations of the sciences stronger and closer , and begin our inquiries deeper than men have hitherto done , bringing those things to the test which the ...
... proper exclusions and rejections . Nor is this all ; for we likewise lay the foundations of the sciences stronger and closer , and begin our inquiries deeper than men have hitherto done , bringing those things to the test which the ...
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... Proper Position not among the Substantial Sciences , but in their Appendix . Mathematics divided into Pure and Mixed 142 144 145 168 • 171 BOOK IV CHAPTER I Division of the Knowledge of Man into Human and Civil Philosophy . Human ...
... Proper Position not among the Substantial Sciences , but in their Appendix . Mathematics divided into Pure and Mixed 142 144 145 168 • 171 BOOK IV CHAPTER I Division of the Knowledge of Man into Human and Civil Philosophy . Human ...
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... proper schoolmasters and tutors ; yet the wisdom of the ancientest and best times always com- plained that States were too busy with laws and too remiss 30 Diog . Cyn . ap . Laert . vi . 54 ; compare Tacitus , Agric . 45 , of Domitian ...
... proper schoolmasters and tutors ; yet the wisdom of the ancientest and best times always com- plained that States were too busy with laws and too remiss 30 Diog . Cyn . ap . Laert . vi . 54 ; compare Tacitus , Agric . 45 , of Domitian ...
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... proper supervision or diligent inquiry into the course of studies , with a view to a thorough reformation of such parts as are ill suited to the age , or of unwise institution . For it is one of your Majesty's sage maxims , that as re ...
... proper supervision or diligent inquiry into the course of studies , with a view to a thorough reformation of such parts as are ill suited to the age , or of unwise institution . For it is one of your Majesty's sage maxims , that as re ...
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... proper and suitable language : especially as ancient transactions are uncertain , and late ones exposed to danger . Whence such a civil history is attended with numerous defects ; the greater part of historians writing little more than ...
... proper and suitable language : especially as ancient transactions are uncertain , and late ones exposed to danger . Whence such a civil history is attended with numerous defects ; the greater part of historians writing little more than ...
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