Life and Writings, Volume 1Harper, 1860 |
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Page 149
... sophism should lie undiscovered . Wit perplexed every debate by rapidity and confusion ; Learning tried the hearers with endless distinctions , and prolonged the dispute without advantage , by proving that which never was denied . Wit ...
... sophism should lie undiscovered . Wit perplexed every debate by rapidity and confusion ; Learning tried the hearers with endless distinctions , and prolonged the dispute without advantage , by proving that which never was denied . Wit ...
Page 159
... sophism by which men persuade themselves that they have those virtues which they really want , is formed by the substitution of single acts for habits . A miser who once relieved a friend from the danger of a prison , suffers his ...
... sophism by which men persuade themselves that they have those virtues which they really want , is formed by the substitution of single acts for habits . A miser who once relieved a friend from the danger of a prison , suffers his ...
Page 171
... sophisms tending to the confusion of all principles and the evacuation of all duties , that they may not appear to act what they are not able to defend . Let every man who finds vanity so far predomi- nant as to betray him to the danger ...
... sophisms tending to the confusion of all principles and the evacuation of all duties , that they may not appear to act what they are not able to defend . Let every man who finds vanity so far predomi- nant as to betray him to the danger ...
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