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... less numerous and apt in our own day , perhaps , than they were among the ancients or in the times of the schoolmen ; but less conspicuous , affecting a smaller class of minds , and therefore less likely , we may hope , to be chronicled ...
... less numerous and apt in our own day , perhaps , than they were among the ancients or in the times of the schoolmen ; but less conspicuous , affecting a smaller class of minds , and therefore less likely , we may hope , to be chronicled ...
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... less application of the primitive sense of duty , which lends all its force to Wordsworth's magnificent exaggeration of the idea , in his Ode to this " stern daughter of the voice of God . " " Thou dost preserve the Stars from wrong ...
... less application of the primitive sense of duty , which lends all its force to Wordsworth's magnificent exaggeration of the idea , in his Ode to this " stern daughter of the voice of God . " " Thou dost preserve the Stars from wrong ...
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... less than his , is still considerable . But in the estimate not only of his comrades , with their peculiar notions of honor , but of all mankind , this sacrifice is so far from being unaccompanied by a full recompense in the high and ...
... less than his , is still considerable . But in the estimate not only of his comrades , with their peculiar notions of honor , but of all mankind , this sacrifice is so far from being unaccompanied by a full recompense in the high and ...
Contents
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND METAPHYSICAL | 1 |
THIS DISTINCTION APPLIED TO PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY | 25 |
CHAPTER VIII | 173 |
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