The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays |
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... fyftem , that we may forget the perpetual attention we owe to experience , the pole - ftar of truth .. An inceffant recurrence to experiment and actual obfervation , is the fecond me- thod thod of inveftigating truth , and the method ...
... fyftem , that we may forget the perpetual attention we owe to experience , the pole - ftar of truth .. An inceffant recurrence to experiment and actual obfervation , is the fecond me- thod thod of inveftigating truth , and the method ...
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... fyftem in the univerfe ; or , in other words , it must be admitted that a careful obferver of na- ture will be enabled by his experience in many cafes , from an acquaintance with the antece- dent , to foretel the confequent . If one ...
... fyftem in the univerfe ; or , in other words , it must be admitted that a careful obferver of na- ture will be enabled by his experience in many cafes , from an acquaintance with the antece- dent , to foretel the confequent . If one ...
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... fyftem in the fpeculations of philofophers , exceeding any that is to be found in the operations of nature . We are too confident in our own fkill , and imagine our science to be greater than it is . We perceive the fucceffion of events ...
... fyftem in the fpeculations of philofophers , exceeding any that is to be found in the operations of nature . We are too confident in our own fkill , and imagine our science to be greater than it is . We perceive the fucceffion of events ...
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... fyftem to which we are accufiomed , will be found upon a minuter and more patient in- fpection really to belong to it . It is the mad- nefs of philofophy to circumfcribe the univerfe within the bounds of our narrow fyftem ; it is the ...
... fyftem to which we are accufiomed , will be found upon a minuter and more patient in- fpection really to belong to it . It is the mad- nefs of philofophy to circumfcribe the univerfe within the bounds of our narrow fyftem ; it is the ...
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... fyf- tem . He that would extend in this refpect the pro- vince of education , muft proceed , like the im- provers of other fciences , by experiment and obfervation . He must watch the progrefs of the dawning mind , and difcover what it ...
... fyf- tem . He that would extend in this refpect the pro- vince of education , muft proceed , like the im- provers of other fciences , by experiment and obfervation . He must watch the progrefs of the dawning mind , and difcover what it ...
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