American Library of Useful Knowledge, Volume 1Stimpson and Clapp, 1831 - Science |
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... minds of men , almost down to the close of the seventeenth century , as wonderful , as it was universal . He was read ... mind and spirit , and essences , and forms , and categories , and syllogisms . Lord Bacon , two centuries ago , in ...
... minds of men , almost down to the close of the seventeenth century , as wonderful , as it was universal . He was read ... mind and spirit , and essences , and forms , and categories , and syllogisms . Lord Bacon , two centuries ago , in ...
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... change , Almighty Father , these Are but the varied God . The rolling year Is full of thee . " What can tend more to exalt the dignity of our nature , than the consideration , that the mind of man has 22 STORY'S DISCOURSE .
... change , Almighty Father , these Are but the varied God . The rolling year Is full of thee . " What can tend more to exalt the dignity of our nature , than the consideration , that the mind of man has 22 STORY'S DISCOURSE .
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... mind . But when we further learn , that these very laws are made continually subser- vient to the use of man ; that by the knowledge of them he is enable to create power , and perfect mechanical operations ; that he can make the winds ...
... mind . But when we further learn , that these very laws are made continually subser- vient to the use of man ; that by the knowledge of them he is enable to create power , and perfect mechanical operations ; that he can make the winds ...
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... mind , without expanding into a healthy growth . It generates , as it moves on , new thoughts , and new inquiries ... minds engaged in it towards the close of the seventeenth century , that if Sir Isaac Newton had never lived , his ...
... mind , without expanding into a healthy growth . It generates , as it moves on , new thoughts , and new inquiries ... minds engaged in it towards the close of the seventeenth century , that if Sir Isaac Newton had never lived , his ...
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... mind , quickened and fertilized by various stores of thought , would soon turn that into the truest source of ... minds engaged at the same moment in the study of mechanical science , and urged on by the daily motives of interest , to ...
... mind , quickened and fertilized by various stores of thought , would soon turn that into the truest source of ... minds engaged at the same moment in the study of mechanical science , and urged on by the daily motives of interest , to ...
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