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... truth , the an- fwer , which is full of fpirit and vivacity , was written the latter end of the fame year , but was laid afide when the queftion affumed a more ferious afpect , from the commencement of rife to the of an actual ...
... truth , the an- fwer , which is full of fpirit and vivacity , was written the latter end of the fame year , but was laid afide when the queftion affumed a more ferious afpect , from the commencement of rife to the of an actual ...
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... truth . Philofophy began to congratulate herself upon fuch a profelyte from the world of business , and hoped to have extended her power under the aufpices of fuch a leader . In the midst of these pleasing expectations , the works ...
... truth . Philofophy began to congratulate herself upon fuch a profelyte from the world of business , and hoped to have extended her power under the aufpices of fuch a leader . In the midst of these pleasing expectations , the works ...
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... truth by folid and conclufive arguments . When men find that fomething can be faid in favour of what , on the very propofal , they have thought utterly indefenfible , they grow doubtful of their own rea- fon ; they are thrown into a ...
... truth by folid and conclufive arguments . When men find that fomething can be faid in favour of what , on the very propofal , they have thought utterly indefenfible , they grow doubtful of their own rea- fon ; they are thrown into a ...
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... truth . I have met with a quotation in Lord Coke's reports that pleased me very much , though I do not know from whence he has taken it : " Interdum fucata " falfitas , ( fays he ) in multis eft probabilior , et fæpe " rationibus vincit ...
... truth . I have met with a quotation in Lord Coke's reports that pleased me very much , though I do not know from whence he has taken it : " Interdum fucata " falfitas , ( fays he ) in multis eft probabilior , et fæpe " rationibus vincit ...
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... truth of any kind , is dangerous ; that ill conclufions can only flow from falfe propo- fitions ; and that , to know whether any propo- fition be true or falfe , it is a prepofterous method to examine it by its apparent confequences ...
... truth of any kind , is dangerous ; that ill conclufions can only flow from falfe propo- fitions ; and that , to know whether any propo- fition be true or falfe , it is a prepofterous method to examine it by its apparent confequences ...
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