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1001 II | employed much of my time in preparation for the work, as well by 1002 II | that it would indeed be preposterous for a private individual 1003 I | than those to whom they prescribe; and if they err in the 1004 IV | which our sense of sight presents; and we may very distinctly 1005 VI | also and especially for the preservation of health, which is without 1006 II | for the true, and always preserve in our thoughts the order 1007 V | expand, and at the same time press home and shut the five small 1008 IV | this doubt, unless they presuppose the existence of God. ~For, 1009 II | from time immemorial have prevailed among men of the greatest 1010 VI | possible objections to my views prevents me from anticipating any 1011 VI | who were cognizant of my previous intention to publish some 1012 I | a name is but apathy, or pride, or despair, or parricide. ~ 1013 V | which I deduced from these primary but as with a view to this 1014 I | mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to 1015 VI | put it into the hands of a printer, when I learned that persons 1016 III| should not remark a greater probability in one opinion than in another, 1017 IV | truth, I thought that a procedure exactly the opposite was 1018 V | to compose these spirits, proceeding towards the brain, it is 1019 VI | that it cannot serve to procure for me any consideration 1020 V | nothing except fire which produces light, I spared no pains 1021 VI | even among those whose profession it is, who does not admit 1022 II | constructed towns which a professional architect has freely planned 1023 I | escape being deceived by the professions of an alchemist, the predictions 1024 II | was true of any similar project for reforming the body of 1025 II | affairs, are yet always projecting reforms; and if I thought 1026 I | romance, and to entertain projects that exceed their powers. ~ 1027 VI | engage in any case to make prolix replies, but only with perfect 1028 III| confess there is need of prolonged discipline and frequently 1029 VI | in which they could have promoted the accomplishment of my 1030 I | equal to some others in promptitude of thought, or in clearness 1031 VI | them to what use they deem proper. ~But I resolved by no means 1032 IV | in reference to all the properties of which I found in my mind 1033 VI | sufficient grace and zeal to be prophets; and although my speculations 1034 IV | truth and certainty of a proposition; for since I had discovered 1035 IV | I am in doubt as to the propriety of making my first meditations 1036 VI | because I have not yet so far prosecuted them as that much does not 1037 III| disapproved of the laws which, to provide against the instability 1038 VI | victory to take towns and provinces. ~For he truly engages in 1039 I | collecting varied experience, in proving myself in the different 1040 VI | could be no more effectual provision against these two impediments 1041 III| possible felicity, I formed a provisory code of morals, composed 1042 VI | victories, and who need greater prudence to keep together the residue 1043 VI | I even resolved to give publicity during my life to no other 1044 VI | of forwarding these to my publisher, who will give me notice 1045 II | that it is not customary to pull down all the houses of a 1046 III| which we live, that it be pulled down, and materials and 1047 III| certain. ~And, just as in pulling down an old house, we usually 1048 V | conjecture from feeling the pulse unless they know that according 1049 I | of which must presently punish him if he has judged amiss, 1050 V | subtle wind, or rather a very pure and vivid flame which, continually 1051 V | in this way alone, things purely material might, in course 1052 II | making old walls serve for purposes for which they were not 1053 V | and more rarefied, they push open the six small valves 1054 III| whenever I should be duly qualified for the task. ~Nor could 1055 I | a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. ~ 1056 V | could come from any other quarter than the heart. ~But there 1057 V | degree, and more or less quickly than before? ~And if it 1058 II | accustomed opinions, and quit the beaten highway, they 1059 I | would have been had I never quitted my country or my books. ~ 1060 IV | really is, is that they never raise their thoughts above sensible 1061 I | augmenting my knowledge, and of raising it by little and little 1062 I | different dispositions and ranks, in collecting varied experience, 1063 V | passes into the cavities rapidly to expand and dilate, just 1064 I | eloquence highly, and was in raptures with poesy; but I thought 1065 I | esteemed the most curious and rare. ~I knew the judgment which 1066 V | the heart, is thinner, and rarefies more readily, and in a higher 1067 VI | my friends. ~But it has rarely happened that anything has 1068 I | beauty; that poesy has its ravishing graces and delights; that 1069 VI | my reply; and in this way readers seeing both at once will 1070 I | imagination, or in fullness and readiness of memory. And besides these, 1071 III| philosophy, can never command the realization of all their desires. ~In 1072 VI | wanting to enable me fully to realize my designs than to gain 1073 I | reach. ~For I have already reaped from it such fruits that, 1074 V | after this described the reasonable soul, and shown that it 1075 IV | because some men err in reasoning, and fall into paralogisms, 1076 III| enough, before commencing to rebuild the house in which we live, 1077 II | with the single design of rebuilding them differently, and thereby 1078 IV | perfect than myself; for to receive it from nothing was a thing 1079 V | fire that is there. ~This receives confirmation from the circumstance, 1080 V | which is the principal receptacle of the blood, and the trunk 1081 II | not by any means therefore recommend to every one else to make 1082 III| leisure without ennui, have recourse to such pursuits as are 1083 VI | thereafter much more skill to recover his former position than 1084 IV | while, on the contrary, recurring to the examination of the 1085 V | diverse qualities; how it reduces some to a liquid state and 1086 VI | being blamed for it. ~I refer to those who imagine that 1087 II | general form possible, without referring them to any objects in particular, 1088 I | mathematics there are many refined discoveries eminently suited 1089 IV | In the next place, from reflecting on the circumstance that 1090 V | the heart, but prevent its reflux. ~Nor do we need to seek 1091 VI | there might be found as many reformers as heads, if any were allowed 1092 II | are yet always projecting reforms; and if I thought that this 1093 VI | persons have an interest in my refraining from publishing the principles 1094 VI | so partial to Latin as to refuse to listen to my reasonings 1095 V | necessitated to adopt or refute the opinions of the learned, 1096 V | have already sufficiently refuted, there is none that is more 1097 III| power, we shall no more regret the absence of such goods 1098 II | laid out compared with the regularity constructed towns which 1099 III| educated from my childhood and regulating my conduct in every other 1100 IV | for, and that I ought to reject as absolutely false all 1101 IV | open to error as any other, rejected as false all the reasonings 1102 VI | things whose utility is very remarkable: but without any wish to 1103 III| without wishing to offer any remarks on the employments of others, 1104 VI | their causes, and of all the remedies provided for us by nature. ~ 1105 II | were not, however, without remedy, nor once to be compared 1106 III| repentings and pangs of remorse that usually disturb the 1107 II | change necessary for their removal; in the same manner that 1108 II | differently, and thereby rendering the streets more handsome; 1109 VI | circle; for since experience renders the majority of these effects 1110 V | distilled by passing and repassing through the heart perhaps 1111 III| thenceforward to rid me of all those repentings and pangs of remorse that 1112 VI | any case to make prolix replies, but only with perfect frankness 1113 I | as gathered from current report, I myself may have a new 1114 VI | as I deem it hostile to repose which I hold in greater 1115 IV | which consists in their representing to us various objects in 1116 VI | me to make it matter of reproach against me some day, that 1117 III| many opinions held in equal repute, I chose always the most 1118 VI | take this opportunity of requesting posterity never to believe 1119 VI | generality and importance, and he requires thereafter much more skill 1120 I | they are from common sense; requiring, as they must in this case, 1121 V | reason may be said wholly to resemble us; but among which I could 1122 V | there such machines exactly resembling organs and outward form 1123 III| according to its rules, I reserved some hours from time to 1124 VI | prudence to keep together the residue of their troops after a 1125 III| maxim was to be as firm and resolute in my actions as I was able, 1126 II | could not do better than resolve at once to sweep them wholly 1127 V | this, that the true use of respiration is to bring sufficient fresh 1128 II | degree approve of those restless and busy meddlers who, called 1129 III| in fine, I could not have restrained my desires, nor remained 1130 II | and without by any means restricting them to these, that afterwards 1131 V | this matter, so that there resulted a chaos as disordered as 1132 II | other hand, that in order to retain them in the memory or embrace 1133 V | received, by the memory which retains them, by the fantasy which 1134 III| and yet as solitary and as retired as in the midst of the most 1135 I | most learned, and that the revealed truths which lead to heaven 1136 I | despair, or parricide. ~I revered our theology, and aspired 1137 III| of morals, I thought of reviewing the different occupations 1138 II | enumerations so complete, and reviews so general, that I might 1139 VI | and I was beginning to revise it, with the view to put 1140 I | ignorant of the rules of rhetoric; and those whose minds are 1141 I | their cultivators honors and riches; and, in fine, that it is 1142 III| sufficient thenceforward to rid me of all those repentings 1143 III| might with freedom set about ridding myself of what remained 1144 II | with few laws, these are rigidly administered; in like manner, 1145 VI | appear to me either less rigorous or less equitable than myself. 1146 V | mountains, seas, fountains, and rivers might naturally be formed 1147 I | keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they 1148 III| years, I did nothing but roam from one place to another, 1149 VI | should doubtless have much to rob me of it, were I to publish 1150 III| that I might reach the rock or the clay. ~In this, as 1151 II | climbing over the tops of rocks and descending to the bottoms 1152 I | of the knight-errants of romance, and to entertain projects 1153 III| source of error, I gradually rooted out from my mind all the 1154 II | Diana or a Minerva from a rough block of marble. Then as 1155 V | whereas the others being round are more conveniently closed 1156 III| we usually reserve the ruins to contribute towards the 1157 VI | constituted the supreme rulers of his people or to whom 1158 III| I not heard it currently rumored that I had already completed 1159 IV | that doubt, inconstancy, sadness, and such like, could not 1160 II | undertaking be more than they can safely venture to imitate. ~The 1161 II | corrected a number which sagacity could not have provided 1162 III| the security of commerce, sanction similar engagements where 1163 VI | observed any which I could not satisfactorily explain by the principles 1164 VI | the method I employ beyond satisfying myself on some difficulties 1165 VI | incumbent on me to do my best to save myself at least from being 1166 VI | difficulties of which he says not a word, and never perhaps 1167 I | though I might not profess to scorn glory as a cynic, I yet 1168 VI | is always more narrowly scrutinized which we believe will be 1169 II | when they had undergone the scrutiny of reason. ~I firmly believed 1170 II | remained the whole day in seclusion, with full opportunity to 1171 III| this chiefly consisted the secret of the power of such philosophers 1172 VI | what those who esteem them secrets will never do), the experiments 1173 III| inhabitants to enjoy more securely the blessings of peace and 1174 III| in it, or even, for the security of commerce, sanction similar 1175 III| since our will naturally seeks those objects alone which 1176 VI | terms with a person that sees, should have made him descend 1177 VI | because one cannot so well seize a thing and make it one' 1178 II | to me was, that there is seldom so much perfection in works 1179 II | single design to strip one's self of all past beliefs is one 1180 IV | leads many to persuade them selves that there is a difficulty 1181 II | nations which, starting from a semi-barbarous state and advancing to civilization 1182 V | issuing from the heart, sends its branches all over the 1183 V | the body, in order to have sensations and appetites similar to 1184 V | room of the vegetative or sensitive soul, beyond kindling in 1185 V | understood by the common sense (sensus communis) in which these 1186 V | present, unless it continually sent thither new blood. ~We likewise 1187 II | relation of antecedence and sequence. ~And the last, in every 1188 II | even kept erect when once seriously shaken, and the fall of 1189 VI | perhaps, offer him their services, besides that in general 1190 I | too, scarce any ground for settled conviction, and remarked 1191 III| and innocently, study to sever pleasure from vice, and 1192 II | as difficult to effect a severance of the true from the false 1193 II | erect when once seriously shaken, and the fall of such is 1194 IV | the sceptics capable of shaking it, I concluded that I might, 1195 VI | merely having excellent sheets of music set up before him. ~ 1196 V | exactly like a pilot in a ship, unless perhaps to move 1197 II | that would lead them by a shorter course, and will lose themselves 1198 V | members, as when we see heads shortly after they have been struck 1199 VI | be hindered either by the shortness of life or the want of experiments, 1200 V | observed. ~Thereafter, I showed how the greatest part of 1201 V | from their causes, and by showing from what elements and in 1202 III| Inasmuch as we neither seek nor shun any object except in so 1203 VI | weighing the reasons on both sides of the question; and those 1204 V | in the same way that some sieves are observed to act, which, 1205 V | artery to expand almost simultaneously with the heart which immediately 1206 III| would have deemed it a grave sin against good sense, if, 1207 I | belief that it has been my singular good fortune to have very 1208 VI | seems to me that they also sink, in other words, render 1209 VI | keep them concealed without sinning grievously against the law 1210 V | arteries, because these are situated below the veins, and their 1211 I | myself in the different situations into which fortune threw 1212 IV | of different figures and sizes, and of being moved or transposed 1213 VI | performance, and that they sketch out fine designs of which 1214 VI | against the most subtle and skillful, without its being possible 1215 I | predominant, and who most skillfully dispose their thoughts with 1216 V | exactly than we with all our skin. ~I had after this described 1217 IV | external to me, as of the sky, the earth, light, heat, 1218 II | advancing to civilization by slow degrees, have had their 1219 VI | me as not to overlook the smallest particular, I should not 1220 V | the situation, shape, or smallness of the pores with which 1221 V | convert them into ashes and smoke; and finally, how from these 1222 II | frequented, become gradually so smooth and commodious, that it 1223 II | without doubt materially smoothed their inconveniences, and 1224 II | locality where, as I found no society to interest me, and was 1225 III| populous cities, and yet as solitary and as retired as in the 1226 II | examination, not only did I reach solutions of questions I had formerly 1227 | somewhere 1228 VI | without much difficulty in all sorts of matters, than by seeking 1229 IV | be a continuous body or a space indefinitely extended in 1230 V | which produces light, I spared no pains to set forth all 1231 II | that the pre-eminence of Sparta was due not to the goodness 1232 V | human invention. ~And here I specially stayed to show that, were 1233 VI | here to say anything very specific of the progress which I 1234 V | we ought not to confound speech with the natural movements 1235 VI | compliments and useless speeches, in which he cannot spend 1236 VI | speeches, in which he cannot spend any portion of his time 1237 III| occupation than that of spending their lives agreeably and 1238 I | great book of the world. ~I spent the remainder of my youth 1239 V | making a digression at this stage on the subject of light, 1240 II | their own nature do not stand in a relation of antecedence 1241 II | that those nations which, starting from a semi-barbarous state 1242 II | in the constitutions of states (and that many such exist 1243 V | invention. ~And here I specially stayed to show that, were there 1244 III| and not to adhere less steadfastly to the most doubtful opinions, 1245 II | and has even managed to steer altogether clear of, or 1246 VI | of great efficacy) might stimulate to accuracy in the performance 1247 I | that the grace of fable stirs the mind; that the memorable 1248 V | digestion be carried on in the stomach unless the heart communicated 1249 I | and those whose minds are stored with the most agreeable 1250 V | that the tie, moderately straightened, while adequate to hinder 1251 II | follow them than to seek a straighter path by climbing over the 1252 IV | moment. ~I was disposed straightway to search for other truths 1253 V | arm with a tie of moderate straitness above the part where they 1254 I | in traveling, we become strangers to our native country; and 1255 I | always the meanest and least striking of the attendant circumstances; 1256 II | imitate. ~The single design to strip one's self of all past beliefs 1257 VI | men of superior genius to strive to proceed farther, by contributing, 1258 V | aside from that point by the stronger which alone in this way 1259 IV | sounds or smell odors, they strove to avail themselves of their 1260 V | shortly after they have been struck off still move and bite 1261 I | however, to hold in esteem the studies of the schools. I was aware 1262 II | there is so complete a subjection to certain rules and formulas, 1263 IV | way that they could not subsist without him for a single 1264 III| as appears to me, I was successful enough; for, since I endeavored 1265 II | degrees, have had their laws successively determined, and, as it were, 1266 III| influence of fortune, and, amid suffering and poverty, enjoy a happiness 1267 VI | design of self-instruction suffers, for want of the infinity 1268 II | remarked that a plurality of suffrages is no guarantee of truth 1269 II | not even choose to dismiss summarily any of the opinions that 1270 V | conveniently than by here giving a summary of the contents of this 1271 I | those abounding the most in superstition and error, that we may be 1272 I | should have had no loftier superstructure reared on them. ~On the 1273 I | I judged that no solid superstructures could be reared on foundations 1274 V | manner of its production and support, and to explain how heat 1275 IV | object: thus, for example, supposing a triangle to be given, 1276 VI | God has constituted the supreme rulers of his people or 1277 V | the ordinary experience of surgeons, who, by binding the arm 1278 VI | battle who endeavors to surmount all the difficulties and 1279 VI | difficulties which I have surmounted, and my encounters with 1280 VI | any one of their disciples surpassed them; and I am quite sure 1281 VI | all the other bodies that surround us, as distinctly as we 1282 VI | occasion to those who shall survive me to make it matter of 1283 IV | leads us very properly to suspect the truth of the ideas of 1284 I | of our friends are to be suspected when given in our favor. ~ 1285 III| my reason compelled me to suspend my judgement, and that I 1286 II | which might justify the suspicion that I was a victim of such 1287 III| thoughts they acquired a sway so absolute, that they had 1288 II | than resolve at once to sweep them wholly away, that I 1289 II | that, as for logic, its syllogisms and the majority of its 1290 I | history, or, if you will, as a tale, in which, amid some examples 1291 I | which the mediocrity of my talents and the brief duration of 1292 V | how light, sounds, odors, tastes, heat, and all the other 1293 II | conclusion, the method which teaches adherence to the true order, 1294 II | sciences, or the order of teaching them established in the 1295 IV | existent; but it plainly tells us that all our ideas or 1296 II | single individual, they all tended to a single end. ~In the 1297 V | prevent all its parts from tending exactly to its center; how 1298 V | which comes from the heart tends to pass through them to 1299 II | not yet been brought to a termination; and as I was returning 1300 V | intellect can do. ~The second test is, that although such machines 1301 VI | as soon as I should have tested their truth, and to bestow 1302 I | is rather to be held as testifying that the power of judging 1303 V | of much harder and firmer texture than the venous artery and 1304 I | cultivation: for I was not, thank Heaven, in a condition which 1305 III| the plays exhibited on the theater of the world; and, as I 1306 VI | believed that others had theirs, which perhaps pleased them 1307 V | commonly received among theologians, that the action by which 1308 VI | such a kind as to enable us therefrom to deduce rules in medicine 1309 VI | matters I have written, adding thereto no explication of any new 1310 | Thereupon 1311 V | changed into vapors, to become thick, and to convert it anew 1312 I | distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided 1313 V | the senses; how hunger, thirst, and the other internal 1314 II | they will never be able to thread the byway that would lead 1315 I | situations into which fortune threw me, and, above all, in making 1316 VI | the same as if I were to throw open the windows, and allow 1317 V | make the light fall, and throwing the rest into the shade, 1318 V | although this had been closely tied in the immediate neighborhood 1319 V | ligature above the opening very tight. ~For it is manifest that 1320 II | ought not to approach it till I had reached a more mature 1321 I | only through fictitious titles. ~And, in fine, of false 1322 II | defects are almost always more tolerable than the change necessary 1323 VI | expound them in the vulgar tongue. ~In conclusion, I am unwilling 1324 VI | when it has reached the top; for it seems to me that 1325 II | path by climbing over the tops of rocks and descending 1326 V | organs; for example, if touched in a particular place it 1327 I | ancient moralists to very towering and magnificent palaces 1328 II | down all the houses of a town with the single design of 1329 I | life fallen in with certain tracks which have conducted me 1330 VI | contrary to the perfect mental tranquillity which I court. And forasmuch 1331 V | on the heavens since they transmit it; on the planets, comets, 1332 V | forms glass: ~for as this transmutation of ashes into glass appeared 1333 V | they are either colored, or transparent, or luminous; and finally 1334 IV | sizes, and of being moved or transposed in all manner of ways (for 1335 III| imitating in this the example of travelers who, when they have lost 1336 II | afterwards in the course of my travels I remarked that all those 1337 V | in an instant of time it traverses the immense spaces of the 1338 V | difficulties which are usually treated of in philosophy, but I 1339 I | had fallen into my hands, treating of such branches as are 1340 VI | physics, and beginning to make trial of them in various particular 1341 VI | together the residue of their troops after a defeat than after 1342 V | likewise observed between the tropics; how the mountains, seas, 1343 V | receptacle of the blood, and the trunk of the tree, as it were, 1344 V | correspond two very ample tubes, viz., the hollow vein ( 1345 VI | experiments. Thereupon, turning over in my mind I the objects 1346 VI | all that another has taken twenty years to think out, as soon 1347 II | being at that time but twenty-three), and had first of all employed 1348 I | still the best poets, though unacquainted with the art of poetry. ~ 1349 III| and seek nothing beyond uncertainty itself; for, on the contrary, 1350 II | perhaps the same when they had undergone the scrutiny of reason. ~ 1351 I | in order competently to undertake their examination, there 1352 II | was besides fortunately undisturbed by any cares or passions, 1353 VI | none, as such knowledge is undoubtedly much to be preferred, and, 1354 VI | occasioned me some sort of uneasiness which would again have been 1355 V | which process it would be unfit for the nourishment of the 1356 VI | seeking the truth itself which unfolds itself but slowly and that 1357 VI | only; and as for those who unite good sense with habits of 1358 V | for it to be joined and united more closely to the body, 1359 V | for while reason is an universal instrument that is alike 1360 II | of saying, such ease in unraveling all the questions embraced 1361 VI | deprived of his leisure by the unseasonable interruptions of any one. ~ 1362 II | such reasonings as were unsound. ~But I had no intention 1363 II | provided I took the firm and unwavering resolution never in a single 1364 VI | could be supposed that I was unworthy. ~These considerations taken 1365 I | single matter that may be upheld by learned men, while there 1366 VI | the same way to all the uses to which they are adapted, 1367 | using 1368 V | magpies and parrots can utter words like ourselves, and 1369 V | PART V~I would here willingly have 1370 III| with all else that is truly valuable and within our reach; and 1371 V | as it were, changed into vapors, to become thick, and to 1372 VI | of nature is so ample and vast, and these principles so 1373 V | principle, in room of the vegetative or sensitive soul, beyond 1374 V | the venous artery (arteria venosa), likewise inappropriately 1375 V | have shown to them its two ventricles or cavities: ~in the first 1376 IV | who is wholly perfect and veracious, should have placed them 1377 VI | making the best of mere verisimilitude, than in weighing the reasons 1378 V | distinguish true reasons from mere verisimilitudes, should venture. ~without 1379 V | advise those who are not versed in anatomy, before they 1380 V | drop into a highly heated vessel. ~For, after these things, 1381 VI | PART VI ~Three years have now elapsed 1382 III| study to sever pleasure from vice, and who, that they may 1383 III| all excess is generally vicious), as that, in the event 1384 II | the suspicion that I was a victim of such folly, I would by 1385 VI | possible objections to my views prevents me from anticipating 1386 I | For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the 1387 II | from being at first only villages, have become, in course 1388 VI | heart, that is, all who are virtuous in truth, and not merely 1389 I | my youth in traveling, in visiting courts and armies, in holding 1390 V | constructed that it emits vocables, and even that it emits 1391 V | functions in which the animals void of reason may be said wholly 1392 III| good, permit engagements by vows and contracts binding the 1393 II | of my life. ~But like one walking alone and in the dark, I 1394 II | to improve, by making old walls serve for purposes for which 1395 III| the long duration of the war has led to the establishment 1396 V | thinner, and more vivid, and warmer immediately after leaving 1397 V | would not be capable of warming the feet and hands as at 1398 II | attracted thither by the wars in that country, which have 1399 V | towards the brain), the weaker and less agitated parts 1400 VI | verisimilitude, than in weighing the reasons on both sides 1401 V | supposed that God had given no weight to the matter of which it 1402 V | composed only of wheels and weights can number the hours and 1403 I | one true, I reckoned as well-nigh false all that was only 1404 IV | object they contemplate), I went over some of their simplest 1405 V | water and air from east to west, such as is likewise observed 1406 | whenever 1407 | wherein 1408 | whoever 1409 V | through which they pass are wide, and the vessels from which 1410 V | and the great artery be wider and larger than the right 1411 V | PART V~I would here willingly have proceeded to exhibit 1412 VI | I were to throw open the windows, and allow the light of 1413 V | those of the tube called the windpipe, through which the air we 1414 V | causes fermentation in new wines before they are run clear 1415 III| incorruptible as diamonds, or the wings of birds to fly with. ~But 1416 VI | one is so full of his own wisdom, that there might be found 1417 VI | ever be found to render men wiser and more ingenious than 1418 III| the best. ~And, without wishing to offer any remarks on 1419 IV | this could not be the case with-the idea of a nature more perfect 1420 V | cannot use them while in the womb, there is a hole through 1421 V | glass appeared to me as wonderful as any other in nature, 1422 V | enable it to act as it is wont to do, it may be believed, 1423 II | seldom so much perfection in works composed of many separate 1424 V | if God had created more worlds, there could have been none 1425 I | sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being 1426 VI | to no one is really to be worthless, yet it is likewise true 1427 VI | such a course of conduct a wrong against myself, and partly 1428 IV | jaundice see all objects yellow, or when the stars or bodies 1429 VI | thoughts which occur to me, yet-the experience I have had of 1430 III| nothing so doubtful as not to yield some conclusion of adequate 1431 | your 1432 VI | given sufficient grace and zeal to be prophets; and although