Inaugural Address: Delivered to the University of St. Andrews Feb. 1st 1867Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1867 - 99 páginas |
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... opinion on the greater concerns of practical life . Government and civil society are the most complicated of all subjects accessible to the human mind : and he who would deal competently with them as a thinker , and not as a blind ...
... opinion on the greater concerns of practical life . Government and civil society are the most complicated of all subjects accessible to the human mind : and he who would deal competently with them as a thinker , and not as a blind ...
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... opinions or ways of thinking than those he has been bred up in ; or , if he has heard of any such , attributes them to some moral defect , or inferiority of nature or education . If his family are Tory , he cannot conceive the ...
... opinions or ways of thinking than those he has been bred up in ; or , if he has heard of any such , attributes them to some moral defect , or inferiority of nature or education . If his family are Tory , he cannot conceive the ...
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... opinions into nearer agreement with facts ; and we shall not be likely to do this while we look at facts only through glasses coloured by those very opinions . But since we cannot divest ourselves of preconceived notions , there is no ...
... opinions into nearer agreement with facts ; and we shall not be likely to do this while we look at facts only through glasses coloured by those very opinions . But since we cannot divest ourselves of preconceived notions , there is no ...
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... opinions about the Greeks and Romans . Translations are scarcely better . When we want really to know what a person thinks or says , we seek it at first hand from himself . We do not trust to another person's impression of his meaning ...
... opinions about the Greeks and Romans . Translations are scarcely better . When we want really to know what a person thinks or says , we seek it at first hand from himself . We do not trust to another person's impression of his meaning ...
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... opinions which are offered to us as vital truths ; to choose what doctrines we will receive in the matter of religion , for example ; to judge whether we ought to be Tories , Whigs , or Radicals , or to what length it is our duty to go ...
... opinions which are offered to us as vital truths ; to choose what doctrines we will receive in the matter of religion , for example ; to judge whether we ought to be Tories , Whigs , or Radicals , or to what length it is our duty to go ...
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