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Accordingly , in a note at the end of the Essays , he begins to repent , and thinks he has not been philosophical enough in this behalf . ' But if we take a more enlarged and philosophical view of oratory , even the theorems of ...
Accordingly , in a note at the end of the Essays , he begins to repent , and thinks he has not been philosophical enough in this behalf . ' But if we take a more enlarged and philosophical view of oratory , even the theorems of ...
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low Mr. Ogilvie through this Essay , for it would carry us greatly out of our limits , and much farther than is necessary to ascertain his pretensions to celebrity as a philosophical writer . He is so desultory and miscellaneous ...
low Mr. Ogilvie through this Essay , for it would carry us greatly out of our limits , and much farther than is necessary to ascertain his pretensions to celebrity as a philosophical writer . He is so desultory and miscellaneous ...
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We cannot trace what the philosophers call necessary connexions in the phenomena we witness ; nor can we explain the manner in which one event proceeds from another as its cause . " " We observe a constant conjunction between certain ...
We cannot trace what the philosophers call necessary connexions in the phenomena we witness ; nor can we explain the manner in which one event proceeds from another as its cause . " " We observe a constant conjunction between certain ...
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