The New-York Review, Volume 3George Dearborn & Company, 1838 |
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... facts which alike distract the mind by their variety and weaken the conclusiveness of all reasoning from them by dis- jointed repetition . " The universally true , " which our author seeks in observation of facts , and which we think facts ...
... facts which alike distract the mind by their variety and weaken the conclusiveness of all reasoning from them by dis- jointed repetition . " The universally true , " which our author seeks in observation of facts , and which we think facts ...
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... facts ? Our advice is , to let " labor " mean " labor " in Political Economy as in common speech , and to let skill ... fact it involves , but even to the can- did mind of our author , the fallacy on which it runs . Not to misstate his ...
... facts ? Our advice is , to let " labor " mean " labor " in Political Economy as in common speech , and to let skill ... fact it involves , but even to the can- did mind of our author , the fallacy on which it runs . Not to misstate his ...
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... facts . If all value of land arise from the labor bestowed upon it , then the more labor ( judiciously bestowed ) the more ... fact every one may judge . Old lands we know , are worn out by repetition of crops , and become comparatively ...
... facts . If all value of land arise from the labor bestowed upon it , then the more labor ( judiciously bestowed ) the more ... fact every one may judge . Old lands we know , are worn out by repetition of crops , and become comparatively ...
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... fact it amounts to such ) is no where more strikingly evident than in the form now generally given to such advertisements as are addressed to the gullibility of the public . The medical quack , for instance , who in Europe arms himself ...
... fact it amounts to such ) is no where more strikingly evident than in the form now generally given to such advertisements as are addressed to the gullibility of the public . The medical quack , for instance , who in Europe arms himself ...
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... Facts of this kind have been applied to the explanation of THERMAL waters , or the high temperature of warm and hot natural springs , the frequent occurrence of which is not the least interesting of the phenomena connected with the ...
... Facts of this kind have been applied to the explanation of THERMAL waters , or the high temperature of warm and hot natural springs , the frequent occurrence of which is not the least interesting of the phenomena connected with the ...
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Page 301 - The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state ; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published.
Page 79 - Cavallo, in Italy, April 20th, 1822, aged five years and three months. ' I shall go to her, but she shall not return to me.
Page 247 - ... PRONUNCIATION, ETYMOLOGY, AND EXPLANATION Of all words authorized by eminent writers „ TO WHICH ARE ADDED, A VOCABULARY OF THE ROOTS OF ENGLISH WORDS, AND AN ACCENTED LIST OF GREEK, LATIN, AND SCRIPTURE FROPER NAMES BY ALEXANDER REID, AM, Rector of the Circus School, Edinburgh.
Page 302 - To subject the press to the restrictive power of a licenser, as was formerly done, both before and since the revolution, is to subject all freedom of sentiment to the prejudices of one man, and make him the arbitrary and infallible judge of all controverted points in learning, religion, and government.
Page 229 - Athens; 1000 from the fall of the Roman empire in the West to the discovery of America; and the remaining 296 will almost complete three centuries of the modern state of Europe and mankind.
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Page 197 - In fact, the Indians that I have had an opportunity of seeing in real life are quite different from those described in poetry. They are by no means the stoics that they are represented; taciturn, unbending, without a tear or a smile.
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