Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 1S. Walker, 1826 - English letters |
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Page 196
... reason we can easily intentions in the constitution ; ac- understand the wisdom of appointing cording to which , we are to examine by law , that " the woman shall not and to judge of the equity and wis- wear that which appertaineth unto ...
... reason we can easily intentions in the constitution ; ac- understand the wisdom of appointing cording to which , we are to examine by law , that " the woman shall not and to judge of the equity and wis- wear that which appertaineth unto ...
Page 238
... reason can apprehend , by antecedent reasoning , and by evi- though it cannot discover what it is dence , in part highly probable , and by its own virtue . And indeed it is in part certain but the connexion very improbable , that we ...
... reason can apprehend , by antecedent reasoning , and by evi- though it cannot discover what it is dence , in part highly probable , and by its own virtue . And indeed it is in part certain but the connexion very improbable , that we ...
Page 273
... reason . She has not limited all her declared fully the ingratitude of their glory , like philosophy , to the essay fathers ; they announced in every page of hardly forming one sage in a cen- their misfortunes to be the just chas- tury ...
... reason . She has not limited all her declared fully the ingratitude of their glory , like philosophy , to the essay fathers ; they announced in every page of hardly forming one sage in a cen- their misfortunes to be the just chas- tury ...
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