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 vi
... whole region of human knowledge , actual and poffible ; to point out the limits of every diftrict ; and to affign to every thing which can be the object of human thought its proper place in the vast arrangement . Such an attempt evinces ...
... whole region of human knowledge , actual and poffible ; to point out the limits of every diftrict ; and to affign to every thing which can be the object of human thought its proper place in the vast arrangement . Such an attempt evinces ...
Page vii
... whole , furniture of the human mind into the compafs of a nut - fhell , and to give at once a complete chart of knowledge , have been cenfured , not only as prefumptuous , but as the fertile fources of error , by a philofopher whofe ...
... whole , furniture of the human mind into the compafs of a nut - fhell , and to give at once a complete chart of knowledge , have been cenfured , not only as prefumptuous , but as the fertile fources of error , by a philofopher whofe ...
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... whole circle of the fciences may be completely exhaufted ; and that every discovery , ancient or recent , may be referred to the particular fyftem which it VOL . I. Part I. b tends Such is that great and general analyfis of knowledge ...
... whole circle of the fciences may be completely exhaufted ; and that every discovery , ancient or recent , may be referred to the particular fyftem which it VOL . I. Part I. b tends Such is that great and general analyfis of knowledge ...
Page xiv
... whole of their undertaking within the limits of eighteen ; and if intervening discoveries fhould make it neceffary , to enlarge the last volumes in quantity without any additional charge to Subscribers . THAT the promise was rafh , a ...
... whole of their undertaking within the limits of eighteen ; and if intervening discoveries fhould make it neceffary , to enlarge the last volumes in quantity without any additional charge to Subscribers . THAT the promise was rafh , a ...
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... whole diocese in person , and preaching every Sunday whilft health would permit . But this was not long : for his fedentary life , and close application to study , brought upon him the gravel and stone ; of which he died on the 2d of ...
... whole diocese in person , and preaching every Sunday whilft health would permit . But this was not long : for his fedentary life , and close application to study , brought upon him the gravel and stone ; of which he died on the 2d of ...
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