Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 1. köide,1. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page v
... particular truths to form to ourselves ge- neral principles . But these principles would be few indeed , had each individual no other materials of which to form them than the perceptions furnished immediately by his own senses . It has ...
... particular truths to form to ourselves ge- neral principles . But these principles would be few indeed , had each individual no other materials of which to form them than the perceptions furnished immediately by his own senses . It has ...
Page vi
... particular object belonged ; after which , nothing more was to be done but , by a fhort process of fyllogiftic reasoning , to affirm or deny of that object whatever could be affirmed or denied of its category . To this ancient ...
... particular object belonged ; after which , nothing more was to be done but , by a fhort process of fyllogiftic reasoning , to affirm or deny of that object whatever could be affirmed or denied of its category . To this ancient ...
Page viii
... particular topic , in the wide circle of the arts and fciences ; but they were at the fame time fenfible , that it is only by thinking in method , and reducing their ideas to the order of nature , that mankind can make ( A ) To be ...
... particular topic , in the wide circle of the arts and fciences ; but they were at the fame time fenfible , that it is only by thinking in method , and reducing their ideas to the order of nature , that mankind can make ( A ) To be ...
Page ix
... particular topics will find them illuftrated under the terms by which they are denominated . Contemplated from this point of view , the arrangement of the Encyclopædia Britannica needs not fhrink from a comparison even with that of the ...
... particular topics will find them illuftrated under the terms by which they are denominated . Contemplated from this point of view , the arrangement of the Encyclopædia Britannica needs not fhrink from a comparison even with that of the ...
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... particular art or science , our curiofity is excited to acquire fome knowledge of the private history of those eminent perfons by whom it was invented , or has been cultivated and improved . To gratify this curiofity , thofe who formed ...
... particular art or science , our curiofity is excited to acquire fome knowledge of the private history of those eminent perfons by whom it was invented , or has been cultivated and improved . To gratify this curiofity , thofe who formed ...
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