The North American Review, Հատոր 54Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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Էջ 113
Some complaints might be done away , and much obscurity be dispelled , if the
nature of the evidence were once fairly considered , and the relation fully
determined which this subject bears to other sciences . This was the scheme of
Lord ...
Some complaints might be done away , and much obscurity be dispelled , if the
nature of the evidence were once fairly considered , and the relation fully
determined which this subject bears to other sciences . This was the scheme of
Lord ...
Էջ 132
The plain answer would be , that the affirmation is supported by the only
evidence , of which , in the nature of things , it is susceptible . A fact can be
proved only by other facts . That which is not perceptible to the senses , can be
made known ...
The plain answer would be , that the affirmation is supported by the only
evidence , of which , in the nature of things , it is susceptible . A fact can be
proved only by other facts . That which is not perceptible to the senses , can be
made known ...
Էջ 134
Suppose that the power - loom or steam - engine , unknown in modern days , had
been dug out of the rocks , like the fossils of an elder world . Would not its
discovery afford irrefragable evidence , that men , or a race of beings of skill and
...
Suppose that the power - loom or steam - engine , unknown in modern days , had
been dug out of the rocks , like the fossils of an elder world . Would not its
discovery afford irrefragable evidence , that men , or a race of beings of skill and
...
Էջ 363
A technical distinction in logic between two kinds of evidence is set up , as if it
affected our belief of the facts which they tend respectively to support . Practically
, this is not true ; the two sorts of reasoning differ in kind , but not in degree .
A technical distinction in logic between two kinds of evidence is set up , as if it
affected our belief of the facts which they tend respectively to support . Practically
, this is not true ; the two sorts of reasoning differ in kind , but not in degree .
Էջ 383
... the world of mind we have irrefragable evidence at every step , which leads us
up from the created directly to the Creator . This eridence appears in the essential
unity of personality , in our recognition of the indivisible Ego in consciousness .
... the world of mind we have irrefragable evidence at every step , which leads us
up from the created directly to the Creator . This eridence appears in the essential
unity of personality , in our recognition of the indivisible Ego in consciousness .
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Էջ 318 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Էջ 482 - It being one chief project of that old deluder Satan to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from the use of tongues...
Էջ 309 - With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; His youthful hose well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big, manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange, eventful history, Is second childishness, and mere oblivion ; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing.
Էջ 245 - And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger as he that was born among them...
Էջ 515 - SMYTH'S (Professor) Lectures on Modern History ; from the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the close of the American Revolution.
Էջ 308 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon...
Էջ 312 - Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie...
Էջ 512 - The instruction derived from history thus written would be of a vivid and practical character. It would be received by the imagination as well as by the reason. It would be not merely traced on the mind, but branded into it. Many truths, too, would be learned, which can be learned in no other manner.
Էջ 379 - And let me speak to the yet unknowing world How these things came about : so shall you hear Of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts, Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters, Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on the inventors' heads : all this can I Truly deliver.
Էջ 308 - Little Jack Horner Sat in a corner Eating a Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, And pulled out a plum, And said, "What a good boy am I!