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... truth dwells among them only ? If so , they have deceived us , and are no happier or wiser than we . " Every moon , my thoughts became more painful : " I will fly , " said I , " the land of my birth ; I will visit the country of those ...
... truth dwells among them only ? If so , they have deceived us , and are no happier or wiser than we . " Every moon , my thoughts became more painful : " I will fly , " said I , " the land of my birth ; I will visit the country of those ...
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... truth and more falsehood - in short , more opposite extremes in every shape , than on any spot of like magnitude in our globe . You are going to witness closely in the aggregate , what as yet you have seen only in perspective , in a ...
... truth and more falsehood - in short , more opposite extremes in every shape , than on any spot of like magnitude in our globe . You are going to witness closely in the aggregate , what as yet you have seen only in perspective , in a ...
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... truth , when the mists of ignorance which now envelope your ideas , are dispersed by the beams of knowledge . We will together range through the haunts of men ; we will endea- vour to learn their secret springs of action ; to unravel ...
... truth , when the mists of ignorance which now envelope your ideas , are dispersed by the beams of knowledge . We will together range through the haunts of men ; we will endea- vour to learn their secret springs of action ; to unravel ...
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... truth , your explanations , your arguments ; some sure and certain test by which all opinion , all assertion may be put to the severest proof , their several natures will admit . " You need not wander far in search of that which lies ...
... truth , your explanations , your arguments ; some sure and certain test by which all opinion , all assertion may be put to the severest proof , their several natures will admit . " You need not wander far in search of that which lies ...
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... truth for its foundation , will endeavour to prove that it is founded on error , has no con- nexion with Nature and Reason , and is conse- quently hollow and artificial : and , lastly , that being established on positions purely local ...
... truth for its foundation , will endeavour to prove that it is founded on error , has no con- nexion with Nature and Reason , and is conse- quently hollow and artificial : and , lastly , that being established on positions purely local ...
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Page 160 - The man who resolutely divesting himself of habit and prejudice, of the false impressions imbibed from early childhood, resolves to know Truth, if haply she may be found, is sure to be assailed, threatened, mimicked, and insulted, with abuse the most pitiful and inane, with derision the most paltry, stupid, and futile, wholly unworthy of the exaltation to which human attainmentboasts to have arrived. 'His honesty is decried as presumption, his avowal of naked truth as sedition; his exposure of existing...
Page 162 - Necker,'that reason suits neither you or me: Sully did not go to mass, and Sully was of the council.' ' Maurepas, in this answer, only caught at the ridicule of...