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Thus , before infancy is past , we become such adepts at knowing things by
intellect , upon sensation , that the sensual perception of figure and the added
intellectual conception of externality “ become identified , in feeling , as one
simple fact ...
Thus , before infancy is past , we become such adepts at knowing things by
intellect , upon sensation , that the sensual perception of figure and the added
intellectual conception of externality “ become identified , in feeling , as one
simple fact ...
Page 357
The chieftain would be incited to become the assailant and ravager of the territory
of his petty neighbour . When too weak to venture on a foreign inroad , he would
but too naturally be tempted to become the despoiler of those very subjects of ...
The chieftain would be incited to become the assailant and ravager of the territory
of his petty neighbour . When too weak to venture on a foreign inroad , he would
but too naturally be tempted to become the despoiler of those very subjects of ...
Page 359
crime , however trivial , has become punishable by being sold for a slave , with all
its dreadful consequences : and the judge who tries the criminal has commonly a
share of the price for which he is sold . The creditor , for lack of payment , may ...
crime , however trivial , has become punishable by being sold for a slave , with all
its dreadful consequences : and the judge who tries the criminal has commonly a
share of the price for which he is sold . The creditor , for lack of payment , may ...
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than as an idea producing stupendous and inconceivable terrors which has
become a favorite contemplation with men who imagine themselves personally
secure . All mankind too look back on past afflictions with a sacred and
inconceivable ...
than as an idea producing stupendous and inconceivable terrors which has
become a favorite contemplation with men who imagine themselves personally
secure . All mankind too look back on past afflictions with a sacred and
inconceivable ...
Page 451
... them to cultivate the powers which they may happen to possess , it might be
supposed that from their classical education , and their regular habits of
ceremony and pomp , they would become mere imitators of the great authors of
antiquity .
... them to cultivate the powers which they may happen to possess , it might be
supposed that from their classical education , and their regular habits of
ceremony and pomp , they would become mere imitators of the great authors of
antiquity .
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Page 96 - And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you ; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
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Page 352 - An account of the proceedings of the British and other Protestant inhabitants of the province of Quebeck, in North America, in order to obtain an House of Assembly in that province.
Page 538 - His plan is original ; and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity. Already the benefit of his labour is felt more or less in every country; I hope he will anticipate his final reward, by seeing all its effects fully realized in his own. He will receive, not by...
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Pamphleteer, Volume 5 |
| Editor | Abraham John Valpy |
| Publisher | A. J. Valpy., 1815 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 23 Jun 2007 |
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