Illustrations of Logic

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Ginn, 1899 - 97 páginas
 

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Página 5 - Our voluntary service he requires, Not our necessitated. Such with him Finds no acceptance, nor can find ; for how Can hearts not free be tried whether they serve Willing or no, who will but what they must By destiny, and can no other choose?
Página 49 - TOUCHSTONE. — Why, if thou never wast at court, thou never sawest good manners; if thou never sawest good manners, then thy manners must be wicked; and wickedness is sin, and sin is damnation. Thou art in a parlous state, shepherd.
Página 18 - All hereditary government is in its nature tyranny. An heritable crown, or an heritable throne, or by what other fanciful names such things may be called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are heritable property. To inherit a government is to inherit the people, as if they were flocks and herds.
Página 5 - Very few," said the poet, "live by choice. Every man is placed in the present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly co-operate ; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbour better than his own.
Página 92 - For what are tythes and tricks but an imposition, all a confounded imposture, and I can prove it. 'I wish you would,' cried my son Moses, 'and I think,' continued he, ' that I should be able to answer you.' ' Very well, sir,
Página 42 - Every minister acts upon the same idea that Mr. Burke writes ; namely, that the people must be hoodwinked, and held in superstitious ignorance by some bugbear or other; and what is called the Crown answers this purpose, and therefore it answers all the purposes to be expected from it.
Página 7 - A prince without letters is a pilot without eyes. All his government is groping. In sovereignty it is a most happy thing not to be compelled; but so it is the most miserable not to be counselled. And how can he be counselled that cannot see to read the best counsellors (which are books); for they neither
Página 21 - the afferent nerves are the optic, the efferent, the facial. When a bad smell causes a grimace, there is a reflex action through the same motor nerve, while the olfactory nerves constitute the afferent channels. In these cases, therefore, reflex action must be effected through the brain, all the nerves involved being cerebral.
Página 97 - Fulton and Trueblood's Practical Elocution 1.50 Fulton and Trueblood's Choice Readings 1.50 Garnett's English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria 1.50 Gayley's Classic Myths in English Literature 1.50 Gummere's Handbook of Poetics 1.oo Holyoake's Public Speaking and Debate 1.oo Hudson's Harvard Edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works.... Hudson's Life, Art, and Characters of Shakespeare. 2 vols
Página 14 - Perfection is synonymous with goodness in the highest degree; and hence to define good conduct in terms of perfection, is indirectly to define good conduct in terms of itself. Naturally, therefore, it happens that the notion of perfection, like the notion of goodness, can be framed only in relation to ends.

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