The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 7. köideH.G. Allen, 1888 |
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... organ of deism . But as Locke's philosophy became in France sensationalism , and as Locke's pregnant question , reiterated by Collins , how we know that the divine power might not confer thought on matter , led the way to dogmatic ...
... organ of deism . But as Locke's philosophy became in France sensationalism , and as Locke's pregnant question , reiterated by Collins , how we know that the divine power might not confer thought on matter , led the way to dogmatic ...
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... organs of sense . and give rise to sensation The rest of the theory remarkably anticipates certain famous modern theories of perception ( 1 ) by its reduction of all sensation . on the ubjective side , to touch , and ( 2 ) by the ...
... organs of sense . and give rise to sensation The rest of the theory remarkably anticipates certain famous modern theories of perception ( 1 ) by its reduction of all sensation . on the ubjective side , to touch , and ( 2 ) by the ...
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... organs , is often a clumsier performance than that of the New Zealand sorceress , producing in thin squeaking tones the voice of a family ghost . Many of the special " manifesta- tions , " such as thumping and drumming in the dark , are ...
... organs , is often a clumsier performance than that of the New Zealand sorceress , producing in thin squeaking tones the voice of a family ghost . Many of the special " manifesta- tions , " such as thumping and drumming in the dark , are ...
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... organs when lost . Disease of the teeth is not always a mere local affection , but may , and very generally does , arise from constitutional causes . With cases of the latter description the dentist , unless qualified as a surgeon or ...
... organs when lost . Disease of the teeth is not always a mere local affection , but may , and very generally does , arise from constitutional causes . With cases of the latter description the dentist , unless qualified as a surgeon or ...
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... organs is different . Here only 20 members students training in that profession , a certain amount of in- of the series exist , and are divided into four incisors , two formation being required in various branches of medicine and ...
... organs is different . Here only 20 members students training in that profession , a certain amount of in- of the series exist , and are divided into four incisors , two formation being required in various branches of medicine and ...
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Page 102 - There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is — to teach ; the function of the second is — to move: the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.
Page 2 - Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven ; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
Page 2 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Page 72 - Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Page 174 - I have been Tom Jones (a child's Tom Jones, a harmless creature) for a week together. I have sustained my own idea of Roderick Random for a month at a stretch, I verily believe.
Page 102 - I may affirm, that my life has been, on the whole, the life of a philosopher: from my birth I was made an intellectual creature : and intellectual in the highest sense my pursuits and pleasures have been, even from my school-boy days.
Page 319 - Cambridge, and having been admitted advocates in pursuance of the rescript of the Archbishop of Canterbury, shall have been elected fellows of the college in the manner prescribed by the charter.
Page 302 - Marriage shall be declared to be dissolved, but not sooner, it shall be lawful for the respective Parties thereto to marry again, as if the prior Marriage had been dissolved by Death...
Page 240 - I said I could see no difference between negligence and gross negligence — that it was the same thing, with the addition of a vituperative epithet...
Page 174 - Jones (a child's Tom Jones, a harmless creature) for a week together. I have sustained my own idea of Roderick Random for a month at a stretch, I verily believe. I had a greedy relish for a few volumes of Voyages and Travels...