The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, 第 92 卷A. Constable, 1850 |
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... facts is intuitive . The questions , therefore , at once arise , 1st . What sort of security have we for the truth of any assertion concerning any external thing or fact which has not been made a matter of direct observation ? and ...
... facts is intuitive . The questions , therefore , at once arise , 1st . What sort of security have we for the truth of any assertion concerning any external thing or fact which has not been made a matter of direct observation ? and ...
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... fact , the only risk ; and , as experience has too recently and abundantly shown , a most imminent and fatal one . To annihilate this risk by a perpetual and searching superintendence , carried even to the utmost stretch of suspicious ...
... fact , the only risk ; and , as experience has too recently and abundantly shown , a most imminent and fatal one . To annihilate this risk by a perpetual and searching superintendence , carried even to the utmost stretch of suspicious ...
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... fact in the table above referred to . The mean we have used is 39.830 inches , and our probable error 1.381 inches . Those of M. Quetelet differ somewhat from these values , which accounts for the trifling discrepancy of the results ...
... fact in the table above referred to . The mean we have used is 39.830 inches , and our probable error 1.381 inches . Those of M. Quetelet differ somewhat from these values , which accounts for the trifling discrepancy of the results ...
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... fact of its having risen a million times in unbroken succession , has a million to one in its favour . But to estimate the probability , drawn from that observation , of the existence of an influential cause for the phenomenon of a ...
... fact of its having risen a million times in unbroken succession , has a million to one in its favour . But to estimate the probability , drawn from that observation , of the existence of an influential cause for the phenomenon of a ...
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... fact , can it be believed that errors and inaccuracies are committed with the same regularity as a series of events whose order is calculated in advance ? There is something mysterious , which however ceases to surprise when we examine ...
... fact , can it be believed that errors and inaccuracies are committed with the same regularity as a series of events whose order is calculated in advance ? There is something mysterious , which however ceases to surprise when we examine ...
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第 352 頁 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
第 276 頁 - Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
第 327 頁 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and in'tense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
第 90 頁 - Stoop then, and wash. — How many ages hence, Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, In states unborn, and accents yet unknown ? Bru.
第 332 頁 - If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style ; which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy, let them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the license of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France.
第 347 頁 - This is a misery much to be lamented ; for though they were burning and shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God, but, were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light as that which they first received.
第 557 頁 - To the inmost mind, There exercise all his fierce accidents, And on her purest spirits prey, As on entrails, joints, and limbs, With answerable pains, but more intense, Though void of corporal sense.