The Philosophy of Rhetoric, 1. köideA. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 |
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Page xvi
... prac- tical skill loses much of its beauty and extensive uti- lity , which does not originate in knowledge . There is by consequence a natural relation between the sci- A ences and the arts , like that which subsists between.
... prac- tical skill loses much of its beauty and extensive uti- lity , which does not originate in knowledge . There is by consequence a natural relation between the sci- A ences and the arts , like that which subsists between.
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... knowledge of the principles from which it sprang . By the help of a few rules , which men are taught to use mechanically , a good practical arithmetician may be formed , who neither knows the reasons on which the rules he works by were ...
... knowledge of the principles from which it sprang . By the help of a few rules , which men are taught to use mechanically , a good practical arithmetician may be formed , who neither knows the reasons on which the rules he works by were ...
Page xvi
... knowledge of the foundations of the art , and of what has been , not un- fitly , styled arithmetic universal . It may be justly said , that , without some portion of this knowledge , the practical rules had never been invented . Besides ...
... knowledge of the foundations of the art , and of what has been , not un- fitly , styled arithmetic universal . It may be justly said , that , without some portion of this knowledge , the practical rules had never been invented . Besides ...
Page xvi
... knowledge we have thus acquired , but to determine before - hand , with sufficient certainty , the success of every new applica- tion . In this progress , we are like people , who , from a low and narrow bottom , where the view is ...
... knowledge we have thus acquired , but to determine before - hand , with sufficient certainty , the success of every new applica- tion . In this progress , we are like people , who , from a low and narrow bottom , where the view is ...
Page xvi
... knowledge of the subject , misapplied . The second often argues very consequentially from principles , which , having no foundation in nature , may justly be denominated the illegitimate issue of his own imagination . He in this ...
... knowledge of the subject , misapplied . The second often argues very consequentially from principles , which , having no foundation in nature , may justly be denominated the illegitimate issue of his own imagination . He in this ...
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