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... fufficient to cite a line of Silius Italicus : Atque Antenorea fefe de ftirpe ferebat . I quote from memory , as I write this in the apartment of a friend . Dr. Baggs will now perceive that I ac- quit Aulus Gellius of blame in connect ...
... fufficient to cite a line of Silius Italicus : Atque Antenorea fefe de ftirpe ferebat . I quote from memory , as I write this in the apartment of a friend . Dr. Baggs will now perceive that I ac- quit Aulus Gellius of blame in connect ...
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... fufficient quantity added of fresh to over . come any injury it may have fuftained ; but it is generally put into ... fufficiently explained -- though Mr. Belfham , towards the end of his apology , feems to have forgotten that part of my ...
... fufficient quantity added of fresh to over . come any injury it may have fuftained ; but it is generally put into ... fufficiently explained -- though Mr. Belfham , towards the end of his apology , feems to have forgotten that part of my ...
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... fufficient to infpire terror . Thofe moun- taineers , however , having acquired intre- pidity from habit , defcend to the fea fide with aftonishing agility , only fupporting themselves by a thick rope fattened to a tree or the point of ...
... fufficient to infpire terror . Thofe moun- taineers , however , having acquired intre- pidity from habit , defcend to the fea fide with aftonishing agility , only fupporting themselves by a thick rope fattened to a tree or the point of ...
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... fufficient room to fufpend the hides and skins in , rendered it neceflary to lay them one over the other according to the old practice , in which fituation they require frequent bandling . This the writer of the letter will probably not ...
... fufficient room to fufpend the hides and skins in , rendered it neceflary to lay them one over the other according to the old practice , in which fituation they require frequent bandling . This the writer of the letter will probably not ...
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... fufficient to prevent the poffibility of a lofs or wafe of bark . Your Conftant Reader roundly affirms " that the new procefs is not calculated for general use in tanneries- and that , if it were generally practifed , it would prove an ...
... fufficient to prevent the poffibility of a lofs or wafe of bark . Your Conftant Reader roundly affirms " that the new procefs is not calculated for general use in tanneries- and that , if it were generally practifed , it would prove an ...
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Page 491 - Again, I ask whether those supposed originals, or external things, of which our ideas are the pictures or representations, be themselves perceivable or no? If they are, then they are ideas, and we have gained our point : but if you say they are not, I appeal to any one whether it be sense to assert a colour is like something which is invisible; hard or soft, like something which is intangible; and so of the rest.
Page 491 - But say you, though the ideas themselves do not exist without the mind, yet there may be things like them whereof they are copies or resemblances, which things exist without the mind, in an unthinking substance. I answer, an idea can be like nothing but an idea; a colour or figure can be like nothing but another colour or figure.
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