The Columbian Cyclopedia, Volume 6Garretson, Cox, 1897 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Page 90 - That the King's most excellent Majesty, and the Lords and Commons of Ireland, are the only power competent to make laws to bind Ireland.
Page 12 - Hence the law of nations has established — that the goods of an enemy on board the ship of a friend may be taken — that the lawful goods of a friend on board the ship of an enemy ought to be restored...
Page 90 - The Bodies, or external objects, which excite certain of those feelings, together with the powers or properties whereby they excite them. 4th. The Successions and Co-existences, the Likenesses and Unlikenesses, between feelings or states of consciousness.
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Page 90 - It is a mere catalogue of the distinctions rudely marked out by the language of familiar life, with little or no attempt to penetrate, by philosophic analysis, to the rationale even of those common distinctions. Such an analysis, however superficially conducted, would have shown the enumeration to be both redundant and defective. Some objects are omitted, and others repeated several times under different heads.
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