Common Courtesy in Eighteenth-century English LiteratureUniversity of Delaware Press, 1997 - 200페이지 In one of his Idlers, Johnson indicated the problems involved in such an achievement as follows: "As a question becomes more complicated and involved, and extends to a greater number of relations, disagreement of opinion will always be multiplied: not because we are irrational, but because we are finite beings, furnished with different kinds of knowledge, exerting different degrees of attention, one discovering consequences which escape another, none taking in the whole concatenation of causes and effects, and most comprehending but a very small part, each comparing what he observes with a different criterion and each referring it to a different purpose. "Where, then, is the wonder, that they who see only a small part should judge erroneously of the whole? |
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... course , or drives him o'er the plains ; When the dull Ox , why now he breaks the clod , Is now a victim , and now Egypt's God : 5. Then shall Man's pride and dulness comprehend 6. His actions ' , passions ' , being's , use and end ; 7 ...
... course , or drives him o'er the plains ; When the dull Ox , why now he breaks the clod , Is now a victim , and now Egypt's God : 5. Then shall Man's pride and dulness comprehend 6. His actions ' , passions ' , being's , use and end ; 7 ...
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... course of correcting that , the false testimony of one highly respected person , Lord Lyttelton . We should notice that he presents this testimony immediately , quoting Lord Lyttelton without giving any indication of his own opinion or ...
... course of correcting that , the false testimony of one highly respected person , Lord Lyttelton . We should notice that he presents this testimony immediately , quoting Lord Lyttelton without giving any indication of his own opinion or ...
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... course , almost as old as philosophy . See , for Aristotle's description of it , Posterior Analytics 100a , Nicomachean Ethics 1139b , and Generation of Animals 760b . See Harold Kelling , " Reason in Madness , " PMLA 64 ( 1954 ) : 198 ...
... course , almost as old as philosophy . See , for Aristotle's description of it , Posterior Analytics 100a , Nicomachean Ethics 1139b , and Generation of Animals 760b . See Harold Kelling , " Reason in Madness , " PMLA 64 ( 1954 ) : 198 ...
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