American Quarterly Review, Volumen4Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1828 |
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... received from the ancients . That turn for intellectual pursuits which distin- guished the Greeks above every other people of antiquity , was in a great measure directed to metaphysical inquiries ; but in consequence of a false method ...
... received from the ancients . That turn for intellectual pursuits which distin- guished the Greeks above every other people of antiquity , was in a great measure directed to metaphysical inquiries ; but in consequence of a false method ...
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... received from the ancients have placed in the way , there are some difficulties arising from the nature of the subject itself . The metaphysician cannot , like the chemist or mineralogist , collect a cabinet of specimens which are 4 ...
... received from the ancients have placed in the way , there are some difficulties arising from the nature of the subject itself . The metaphysician cannot , like the chemist or mineralogist , collect a cabinet of specimens which are 4 ...
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... receiving some little bias of error . This circumstance induces each writer to make a new selection of terms , and he is guided in his choice by those analogies which his own associations have suggested . Thus no fixed nomencla- ture ...
... receiving some little bias of error . This circumstance induces each writer to make a new selection of terms , and he is guided in his choice by those analogies which his own associations have suggested . Thus no fixed nomencla- ture ...
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... received little attention from philosophers , become in many instances , as in the acquired perceptions of sight , the foundation of some of the most accurate judgments we form . The most important , however , in the class of the ex ...
... received little attention from philosophers , become in many instances , as in the acquired perceptions of sight , the foundation of some of the most accurate judgments we form . The most important , however , in the class of the ex ...
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... received the aid of experience and the other senses . It is by the combined action of this sim- ple tactual sensation , the use of the muscles , ( which Brown calls another sense ) and experience , that we become acquainted with the ...
... received the aid of experience and the other senses . It is by the combined action of this sim- ple tactual sensation , the use of the muscles , ( which Brown calls another sense ) and experience , that we become acquainted with the ...
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Página 282 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning! Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid! Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Página 282 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid ; star of the east, the horizon adorning, guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Página 147 - In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell; Earthly these passions of the earth, They perish where they have their birth -, But love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth; from heaven it came, to heaven...
Página 397 - Marshal of the district into which they are brought ; and to appoint a proper person or persons, residing upon the coast of Africa, as agent or agents for receiving the negroes, mulattoes, or persons of colour, delivered from on board vessels seized in the prosecution of the Slave Trade by commanders of The United States
Página 284 - Thou art gone to the grave ; but we will not deplore thee; Whose God was thy ransom, thy guardian, and guide : He gave thee, he took thee, and he will restore thee ; And death has no sting, for the Saviour hasoied.
Página 396 - The object, to which its attention is to be exclusively directed, is to promote and execute a plan for colonizing (with their consent) the free people of color residing in our country in Africa, or such other place as Congress shall deem most expedient.
Página 196 - Shakspearc and Milton, like gods in the fight, Have put their whole drama and epic to flight ; In satires, epistles, and odes, would they cope. Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, \ and will beat forty more...
Página 274 - Committee, that it is the duty of this country to promote the interest and happiness of the native inhabitants of the British dominions in India, and thai such measures ought to be adopted, as may tend to the introduction among them of useful knowledge, and of religious and moral improvement.
Página 282 - Cold on his cradle the dew-drops are shining, Low lies his head with the beasts of the stall ; Angels adore him in slumber reclining, Maker and Monarch and Saviour of all.