Sketches of the History of Man: In Two Volumes, Volumen2W. Creech, Edinburg; and for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, London, 1774 |
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... science * . Senfible am I that the foregoing plan is in several respects im- perfect ; but if it be found at bottom , polish and improvement are easy operations . My capital aim has been , to obviate the ob- jections that press hard ...
... science * . Senfible am I that the foregoing plan is in several respects im- perfect ; but if it be found at bottom , polish and improvement are easy operations . My capital aim has been , to obviate the ob- jections that press hard ...
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... science , that part of public police which concerns the poor , makes now a confiderable branch of statute - law . The poor - laws are fo multiplied , and fo anxiously framed , as to move one to think , that there cannot remain a fingle ...
... science , that part of public police which concerns the poor , makes now a confiderable branch of statute - law . The poor - laws are fo multiplied , and fo anxiously framed , as to move one to think , that there cannot remain a fingle ...
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... SCIENCE S. PREFACE . Morality , theology , and the art of reasoning , are three great branches of a learned education ; and are jufly held to be fo , be- cause they are our only fure guides in passing through the intricate paths of life ...
... SCIENCE S. PREFACE . Morality , theology , and the art of reasoning , are three great branches of a learned education ; and are jufly held to be fo , be- cause they are our only fure guides in passing through the intricate paths of life ...
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... science , particularly in mathematics , are perceived to be equal- ly true . By a peculiar fenfe , of which afterward , we know that there us a Deity . By another fense we know , that the external figns of paffion are the fame in all ...
... science , particularly in mathematics , are perceived to be equal- ly true . By a peculiar fenfe , of which afterward , we know that there us a Deity . By another fense we know , that the external figns of paffion are the fame in all ...
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... thefe being perfectly clear and distinct , are proper fubjects for demonftrative reasoning of the first kind . Ma- Y thematical thematical reasoning however is not merely a mental entertain- ment 108 Book III . SCIENCE S.
... thefe being perfectly clear and distinct , are proper fubjects for demonftrative reasoning of the first kind . Ma- Y thematical thematical reasoning however is not merely a mental entertain- ment 108 Book III . SCIENCE S.
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