The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 20. köideLittle, Brown, 1886 |
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... ideas and of lavish expenditure , were of great service to him ; but part of them he devoted to the encouragement of science and art . A compact of mutual right of eventual inheritance made in 1537 with the duke of Liegnitz and Brieg ...
... ideas and of lavish expenditure , were of great service to him ; but part of them he devoted to the encouragement of science and art . A compact of mutual right of eventual inheritance made in 1537 with the duke of Liegnitz and Brieg ...
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... ideas themselves . He cannot justify his belief in the world of things whence certain of his simple ideas " were conveyed " any more than Robinson Crusoe could have explored the continents whose products were drifted to his desert ...
... ideas themselves . He cannot justify his belief in the world of things whence certain of his simple ideas " were conveyed " any more than Robinson Crusoe could have explored the continents whose products were drifted to his desert ...
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... ideas ; but , these changing , change of feel- once confronted by a doctrine much in vogue at present , ing follows . In short , feeling appears frequently to be an which , strictly taken , amounts almost to a denial of this effect ...
... ideas ; but , these changing , change of feel- once confronted by a doctrine much in vogue at present , ing follows . In short , feeling appears frequently to be an which , strictly taken , amounts almost to a denial of this effect ...
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... ideas " which Stillingfleet found alternately so amusing and so dangerous . By idea Locke tells us he meant true appearances in men's minds , or " whatsoever is the immediate object of perception , thought , or understanding " ; and it ...
... ideas " which Stillingfleet found alternately so amusing and so dangerous . By idea Locke tells us he meant true appearances in men's minds , or " whatsoever is the immediate object of perception , thought , or understanding " ; and it ...
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... idea - we can by what is strangely like a concentration selves , hardly call for examination in a general analysis of attention convert the idea of a movement into the like the present . But there is one point still more funda- fact ...
... idea - we can by what is strangely like a concentration selves , hardly call for examination in a general analysis of attention convert the idea of a movement into the like the present . But there is one point still more funda- fact ...
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