The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 |
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... knowledge . In another part was the dogmatic philosophers , who gave their opi- nions as decisive , pronouncing some things good , others bad . They lived in continual inquietude ; avoiding this and seeking that ; more de- serving of ...
... knowledge . In another part was the dogmatic philosophers , who gave their opi- nions as decisive , pronouncing some things good , others bad . They lived in continual inquietude ; avoiding this and seeking that ; more de- serving of ...
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... knowledge led me among the Indians , Persians , Chaldeans , and Ethiopians , and I have discove- red the vanity of the sciences , the danger of this republic , and the madness of its citizens , it has appeared to me best to laugh at ...
... knowledge led me among the Indians , Persians , Chaldeans , and Ethiopians , and I have discove- red the vanity of the sciences , the danger of this republic , and the madness of its citizens , it has appeared to me best to laugh at ...
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... knowledge in external things , while they know nothing of themselves , their souls being more rude than unhewn marble , and more savage than the beasts of the forest : at these I laugh , and esteem those only who , though ignorant of ...
... knowledge in external things , while they know nothing of themselves , their souls being more rude than unhewn marble , and more savage than the beasts of the forest : at these I laugh , and esteem those only who , though ignorant of ...
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... knowledge ? The worst is , that we owe all our informa- tion to the brutes , to whom Nature has been more kind ,, and from whom we have learned the greatest part of the arts and sciences . The bees taught us politics , the ants economy ...
... knowledge ? The worst is , that we owe all our informa- tion to the brutes , to whom Nature has been more kind ,, and from whom we have learned the greatest part of the arts and sciences . The bees taught us politics , the ants economy ...
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... knowledge of the properties and processes of nature ; that make us , or tend to make us , better fathers , husbands , and neighbours ; bet- ter artists or husbandmen . “ Now , no instruction of this kind , he continued , can be gained ...
... knowledge of the properties and processes of nature ; that make us , or tend to make us , better fathers , husbands , and neighbours ; bet- ter artists or husbandmen . “ Now , no instruction of this kind , he continued , can be gained ...
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