Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 2J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910 - American literature |
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... mind : God having endued man with those faculties of knowing which he hath , was no more obliged by His good- ness to implant those innate notions in his mind , than that having given him reason , hands , and materials , He should build ...
... mind : God having endued man with those faculties of knowing which he hath , was no more obliged by His good- ness to implant those innate notions in his mind , than that having given him reason , hands , and materials , He should build ...
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... mind , or trouble myself to examine wherein its essence consists , or by what motions of our spirits or alterations of our bodies we come to have any sensation by our organs , or any ideas in our understandings ; and whether those ideas ...
... mind , or trouble myself to examine wherein its essence consists , or by what motions of our spirits or alterations of our bodies we come to have any sensation by our organs , or any ideas in our understandings ; and whether those ideas ...
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... mind was then seriously disturbed is proved , and the disturbance was occasionally fol- lowed by fits of melancholia . Newton himself , writing on the 13th of September 1693 to Pepys , Secretary to the Admiralty , says : ' I am ...
... mind was then seriously disturbed is proved , and the disturbance was occasionally fol- lowed by fits of melancholia . Newton himself , writing on the 13th of September 1693 to Pepys , Secretary to the Admiralty , says : ' I am ...
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... mind doth weigh down all the external accidents of life . For suppose a man to have riches and honours as great as Ahashuerus bestowed on his highest favourite Haman ; yet by his sad instance we find that a small discontent when the mind ...
... mind doth weigh down all the external accidents of life . For suppose a man to have riches and honours as great as Ahashuerus bestowed on his highest favourite Haman ; yet by his sad instance we find that a small discontent when the mind ...
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... mind , like that of a constant health which is better felt than expressed . When a man applies his mind to the knowledge of his duty , and when he doth understand it ( as it is not hard for an honest mind to do , for as the oracle ...
... mind , like that of a constant health which is better felt than expressed . When a man applies his mind to the knowledge of his duty , and when he doth understand it ( as it is not hard for an honest mind to do , for as the oracle ...
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