The Edinburgh Review, Volume 64A. and C. Black, 1837 |
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Page 277
... matter . Indeed it is more certain and more irrefragable . The consciousness of existence , the perpetual sense that we are thinking , and that we are performing the operation quite independently of all material objects , proves to us ...
... matter . Indeed it is more certain and more irrefragable . The consciousness of existence , the perpetual sense that we are thinking , and that we are performing the operation quite independently of all material objects , proves to us ...
Page 280
... matter , we can exercise and improve the intellectual faculties , and produce , as it were , new forms of the understanding . ' Nay ( it might have been added ) , all our power over matter , excepting that which we have in common with ...
... matter , we can exercise and improve the intellectual faculties , and produce , as it were , new forms of the understanding . ' Nay ( it might have been added ) , all our power over matter , excepting that which we have in common with ...
Page 282
... matter ; -that the evidence is even more conclusive than that for the existence of matter , in consequence of the steps in the reasoning being fewer , and the final truth less remote from the axiom on which it is founded . We only know ...
... matter ; -that the evidence is even more conclusive than that for the existence of matter , in consequence of the steps in the reasoning being fewer , and the final truth less remote from the axiom on which it is founded . We only know ...
Contents
Sir Thomas Brownes Works including his Life | 1 |
Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan and on the site | 35 |
Poggii Epistolæ Editas collegit et emendavit pleras | 60 |
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