Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists ...G. P. Putnam's sons, 1883 |
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... judge or accuser , under trials and racking examinations . " You will never be the wiser , if I sit here answering your questions till midnight , " said one of those up- right justicers to Penn , who had been putting law cases with a ...
... judge or accuser , under trials and racking examinations . " You will never be the wiser , if I sit here answering your questions till midnight , " said one of those up- right justicers to Penn , who had been putting law cases with a ...
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... judges of any measure , that their imbecil- ity is too great to allow them to judge of the measure by its own merits , and that they must have recourse to distant and feebler probabili- ties for that purpose ? " In proportion to the ...
... judges of any measure , that their imbecil- ity is too great to allow them to judge of the measure by its own merits , and that they must have recourse to distant and feebler probabili- ties for that purpose ? " In proportion to the ...
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... judge what they prove . " What is done in our systems of training to teach people how to judge what facts prove ? There is mathematics , no doubt ; anybody who has done even no more than the first book of Euclid's geometry , ought to ...
... judge what they prove . " What is done in our systems of training to teach people how to judge what facts prove ? There is mathematics , no doubt ; anybody who has done even no more than the first book of Euclid's geometry , ought to ...
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THE MUTABILITY OF LITERATURE By W Irving | 3 |
THE WORLD OF BOOKS | 25 |
IMPERFECT SYMPATHIES | 43 |
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