Sketches of the History of Man, Band 3W. Creech, 1788 |
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... five years ? This law could not be " difapproved of , because it is confiftent both with " nature and justice , that every citizen should be " employed in the defence of the ftate . Here would " be an inexhauftible fund of good and able ...
... five years ? This law could not be " difapproved of , because it is confiftent both with " nature and justice , that every citizen should be " employed in the defence of the ftate . Here would " be an inexhauftible fund of good and able ...
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... five or seven years , the measure " " nobility and the men of wealth . There would 66 not be a single man who would complain of it . A " perfon who had ferved his time , would treat with 66 contempt another who fhould fhow reluctance to ...
... five or seven years , the measure " " nobility and the men of wealth . There would 66 not be a single man who would complain of it . A " perfon who had ferved his time , would treat with 66 contempt another who fhould fhow reluctance to ...
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... five or feven years been early adopted by the Emperors of Rome , the Pretorian bands would never have become masters of the ftate . It was a grofs error to keep these troops always on foot without change of members ; which gave them a ...
... five or feven years been early adopted by the Emperors of Rome , the Pretorian bands would never have become masters of the ftate . It was a grofs error to keep these troops always on foot without change of members ; which gave them a ...
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... five pence a - day . An army of 60,000 men thus employ'd , would not be fo expensive to the public , as 20,000 men upon the present establishment : for beside the mo- ney contributed by private undertakers , public works carried on by ...
... five pence a - day . An army of 60,000 men thus employ'd , would not be fo expensive to the public , as 20,000 men upon the present establishment : for beside the mo- ney contributed by private undertakers , public works carried on by ...
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... five gentlemen who have the qualification under confideration , over and above the ordinary legal qualifications ; one of the five must be chofen , leaving the electors free as to their other reprefentative . With refpect to the private ...
... five gentlemen who have the qualification under confideration , over and above the ordinary legal qualifications ; one of the five must be chofen , leaving the electors free as to their other reprefentative . With refpect to the private ...
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Seite 414 - But if any man think, that from this conceffion he may infer the inutility of logic, he betrays a great want of that art by this inference : for it is no better...
Seite 284 - And this principally raises my esteem of these fables, which I receive not as the product of the age, or invention of the poets, but as sacred relics, gentle whispers, and the breath of better times, that from the traditions of more ancient nations came, at length, into the flutes and trumpets of the Greeks.
Seite 282 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Seite 299 - ... so if we should say, as it were, unto certain words, Stand up higher, have a place in the Bible always; and to others of like quality, Get you hence, be banished for ever; we might be taxed peradventure with St. James's words, namely, To be partial in ourselves, and judges of evil thoughts.
Seite 348 - ... for more than a thoufand years. Thefe books are called Analytics, becaufe the intention of them is to refolve all reafoning into its fimple ingredients. • The firft book of the Firft Analytics, confifting of forty-fix chapters, may be divided into four parts ; the firft treating of the converfion...
Seite 345 - Ihewing its fubject and predicate, its quantity and quality ; and indeed, unlefs he can do this, he will be unable to apply the rules of logic to ufe. Yet he will find, there are fome difficulties in this analyfis, which are overlooked by Ariftotle altogether; and although they are fometimes touched, they are not removed by his followers.
Seite 353 - Each of the three propofitions muft be either an univerfal affirmative or an univerfal negative, or a particular affirmative or a particular negative. Thefe four kinds of propofitions, as was before obferved, have been named by the four vowels, A, E, I, O ; by which means. the mode of a fyllogifm is marked by any three of thofe four vowels. Thus, A, A, A, denotes that mode in which the major, minor, and conclufion, are all univerfal affirmatives ; E, A, E, denotes that mode in which the major and...
Seite 425 - Therefore he applies thefe faculties, whofe character is yet in queftion, to prove, that there is an infinitely perfect Being, who made him, and who made his fenfes, his memory, his reafon, and all his faculties ; that this Being is no deceiver, and therefore could not give him faculties that are fallacious ; and that on this account they deferve credit. It is ftrange that this philofopher, who found himfelf under a...
Seite 417 - It muft even be acknowledged, that commonly we are capable of reafoning in mathematics more early than in logic. The objects prefented to the mind in this fcience, are of a very...
Seite 390 - I muft gain my point ? for if the judges give fentence for me, you muft pay by their fentence; if againft me, the condition of our bargain is fulfilled, and you " have no plea left for your delay, after having pleaded and gained