A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1872 - 511 páginas |
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... things , might be unable wholly to reject . But if there were a thousand flies , all buzzing , to appearance , about the ... thing . The homœopathists , for instance , shall be , if any one so think , as B wrong as St. John Long ; but an ...
... things , might be unable wholly to reject . But if there were a thousand flies , all buzzing , to appearance , about the ... thing . The homœopathists , for instance , shall be , if any one so think , as B wrong as St. John Long ; but an ...
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... things brought forward would now be called crotchets , which is the nearest word we have to old paradox . But - there is this difference , that by calling a thing a crotchet we mean to speak lightly of it ; which was not the necessary ...
... things brought forward would now be called crotchets , which is the nearest word we have to old paradox . But - there is this difference , that by calling a thing a crotchet we mean to speak lightly of it ; which was not the necessary ...
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... thing were to be ; and that it might almost have been predicted . After looking into books of paradoxes for more than thirty years , and holding conversation with many persons who have written them , and many who might have done so ...
... thing were to be ; and that it might almost have been predicted . After looking into books of paradoxes for more than thirty years , and holding conversation with many persons who have written them , and many who might have done so ...
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... thing much more completely . There is a line to be drawn which is constantly put aside in the arguments held by ... things . So far all is well . But there are many who , in carrying the expression of their own opinions beyond the usual ...
... thing much more completely . There is a line to be drawn which is constantly put aside in the arguments held by ... things . So far all is well . But there are many who , in carrying the expression of their own opinions beyond the usual ...
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... thing hap- pened with Poles . It is not so with circle - squarers , & c .: they know nothing of each other . Some will read this list , and will say I am right enough , generally speaking , but that there is an exception , if I could ...
... thing hap- pened with Poles . It is not so with circle - squarers , & c .: they know nothing of each other . Some will read this list , and will say I am right enough , generally speaking , but that there is an exception , if I could ...
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A Budget of Paradoxes Volume 2 David Eugene Smith,Augustus de Morgan,Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan Pré-visualização indisponível - 2015 |
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