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...s, of which a few are to be found, especially among the descendants of the Dutch, is looked upon with some such reverence as is felt by the modern tra... ...these facts we owe the figments which have rendered the Southern school of logicians a little presuming, perhaps, and certainly very so- phistical. Am...

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...y recorded in human literature, and illustrated by a plate. It occurs in a Dutch voyage to the islands of the East. The subject of the torment in that... ...mself in litera- ture by translating and improving the work of Tenhove the Dutchman (or Belgian?) upon the house of the De ’ Medici— a work which Mr. ... ...whole work, from first to last, proceeds upon that sort of error which the logicians call ignoratio elenchi, that is, igno- rance of the very question... ...ranks these several species under the same genus? What, in the language of logicians, is the common 159 Thomas de Quincey differential principle whic... ...eter- mined by the price of commodities. From this gross Diallælos (as the logicians call it), or see-saw, we are now liberated; for the first step, a...

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...s a case very much resembling some of those imagined by the old scholastic logicians, where it was impossible ei- ther to deny or to affirm: saying ye... ...f intercepting any further draughts upon the rest of the solar system, the Dutch ambassador rose, and proposed the health of their high mightinesses t...

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... the picture of Lady Ranelagh: and, I have heard, more still to the famous dutchess of Mazarine; but most of all she resembled one whose image never c... ...rest, as a separate league with the French would be to the interest of the Dutch! But however, if you have not hitherto consid ered of this matter, I... ...k; with extraordinary instances of paternal madness and filial affection Logicians sometimes prove too much by an argument, and politicians often ov... ...lic, ‘That the Duke of Monmouth was landed in the west with a vast army of Dutch; and that another vast fleet hovered over the coast of Norfolk, and w...

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... Pole nodded to right and left like a man who silenced a host of invisible logicians, urging this and that—”you’re a pleas- ant companion, thrifty, pr... ...ght. He’ll lie till he gets cold in the feet, and then tuck them up like a Dutch doll, and perspire cold till his heart gives a bound, and he’ll jump ...

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..., to Latakia, — was exposed in pots of crackled earth- enware of which the Dutch are so fond; beside them, in boxes of fragrant wood, were ranged, acc... ...count,” cried Morcerf, “you are at fault — you, one of the most formidable logicians I know — and you must see it clearly proved that instead of being...

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... people, while about modern history, except detached passages, such as the Dutch War of Inde pendence, I knew and cared comparatively little. A volun... ...bes, a work of a much higher order of thought than the books of the school logicians, and which he esti mated very highly; in my own opinion beyond i... ..., to rationalize and correct the principles and distinctions of the school logicians, and to improve the theory of the Import of Propositions, had its... ... be rendered innocuous and beneficial; it is not surprising, that while as logicians we were nearly at one, as sociologists we could travel together n...

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... in a general way, that the finest place in the world is—or, alas, was—the Dutch borough of V ondervotteimittiss. Y et as it lies some distance from a... ...ered up in the shape of a cabbage. In her left hand she has a little heavy Dutch watch; in her right she wields a ladle for the sauerkraut and pork. B... ... impalpa- bility of their axioms in general. Who was the soundest of their logicians? Let me see! I will go and ask Pundit and be back in a minute....... ...to run us up an ornamental mud hovel, right against it; or a Down- East or Dutch Pagoda, or a pig-sty, or an ingenious little bit of fancy work, eithe...

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...ngs us to a far more exact conclu- sion, than to read the works of all the logicians extant. If both, by a large allowance, may be said to end in cert... ...elp Yoshida more practically than by simple countenance; for he could read Dutch, and was eager to communicate what he knew. 110 Robert Louis Stevens... ...spite of fate, and stayed awhile to pick up scraps of knowl- edge from the Dutch interpreters – a low class of men, but one that had opportunities; an... ...lready near at hand. Some of his work was done; for already there had been Dutch teachers admitted into Nangasaki, and the coun- try at large was keen... ... very midst of his bodyguard – not only held back pupils from going to the Dutchmen, but by spies and detectives, by imprisonment and death, kept thin... ...8, we find him writing to Evelyn, his mind bitterly occupied with the late Dutch war, and some thoughts of the different story of the repulse of the G...

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... was a very great and a very old one; and when it came first into the room where the prince was, with a great many Dutchmen about him, it said present... ...sked whether he understood Brazilian; he said No, but he had taken care to have two interpreters by him, the one a Dutchman that spoke Brazilian, and ... ...by its famous absurdity, to guess what word it could ever be supposed to be the explication of. If Tully, asking a Dutchman what beweeginge was, shoul... ...y one can imagine he could thereby have understood what the word beweeginge signified, or have guessed what idea a Dutchman ordinarily had in his mind... ...guages, in all countries, have been established long be- fore sciences. So that they have not been philosophers or logicians, or such who have trouble... ..., the most untainted credit of a witness will scarce be able to find belief. The king of Siam. As it happened to a Dutch ambassa- dor, who entertainin... ...ke use of it in a syllogism. And when all those syllogisms are made, neither those that are nor those that are not logicians will see the force of the... ...respective connexion, being disturbed, renders the illation much more uncertain than without them.] And as for the logicians themselves, they see the ...

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...an do so. There are two other points on which these Northern statesmen and logicians also insist, and these two other points are at any rate better wo... ...ring the others. This State, now called New York, was first settled by the Dutch in 1614, on Manhattan Island. They established a government in 1629, ... ...try on his behalf by one Colonel Nichols. In 1673 it was recaptured by the Dutch, but they could not hold it, and the Duke of York again took possessi...

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...urture of a ‘Friend of Men,’ has, in State Prisons, in marching Regiments, Dutch Authors’ garrets, and quite other scenes, ‘been for twenty years lear... ...asunder,—reckless what else he sheer with it. Simple seemest thou, O solid Dutch-built Petion; if solid, surely dull. Nor lifegiving in that tone of t... ...in the ancient pigtail mode, or with modern Brutus’ heads, do well-frizzed logicians hold hubbub, and Chaos umpire sits. The ever-enduring Melody of P... ...s sur les Prisons (Paris, 1823), i. 179-90.) Those sixty thousand stand of Dutch arms (which never arrive), and the bold stroke of trade, have turned ... ...ng for one word of any Minister, or Minister’s Clerk, about those accursed Dutch muskets, and getting none,—with heart fuming in spleen, and terror, a... .... PEREYRA (Peyreyra), Walloon, account of, imprisoned. PETION, account of, Dutch-built, and D’Espremenil, to be mayor, Varennes, meets King, and Royal...