Logick; Or, An Essay on the Elements, Principles, and Different Modes of Reasoning, المجلد 2

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Payne & Mackinlay, 1807 - 623 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 426 - In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought to try them by the principles and maxims of their own age, not by those of another. For although virtue and vice are at all times the same, manners and customs vary continually.
الصفحة 368 - The fquare of the hypothenufe or longell fide, is equal to the fum of the fquares of the other two fides...
الصفحة 553 - But a distinction must be made between admission and an offer of compromise after a dispute has arisen. An offer to pay a sum of money in order to get rid of an action, is not , received in evidence of a debt ; the reason often assigned for it by Lord Mansfield was, that it must be permitted to men to buy their peace...
الصفحة 475 - All animals are mortal; All men are animals: Therefore all men are mortal.
الصفحة 610 - Make to yourselves bags which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not : where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth. 34 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 35 Let your loins be girt, and lamps burning in your hands. 36 And you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately. 37 Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when he cometh, shall find watching.
الصفحة 331 - ... agreed. But fince not every deviation is a contradiction, and the fame fact, as viewed by different perfons in different lights, not only may, but muft be reported by them in different ways; we muft examine, whether the deviations are fuch, as may be explained pn this principle.
الصفحة 441 - But they infer the preponderance of the motive before election, from its appearance after the election, to have been that with which the will complied — an inference which is merely a petitio principii, assuming that for true which their opponents deny.
الصفحة 501 - ... as the following ? — Either it rains, or it does not rain — but it rains — therefore it does not rain : or by reversing the position, you may prove that it does rain, and so strike at the very root of rational and instructive conversation. In the succeeding trite quatrain a most unfounded and illiberal imputation is cast upon the filial affections of a respectable class of...
الصفحة 330 - ... of the teftimonies in its favour. And if the contradictions are fuch, as to be wholly incapable of a reconciliation, the proof of the fact will certainly not be fo...
الصفحة 354 - Prima facie, nothing in the general confideration of the fact at large, can juftify one man's killing another, under the protection of the fame laws. " The malice therefore, is in the fact itfelf, without juftifiable caufe Ihewn, or a legal excufe ; and this will be according to the circumftances proved, if...

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