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" I could, and discover the causes of the distemper ; but it is easier to say what it is not, than what it is. "
Letters on the Improvement of the Mind - Page 105
by Mrs. Chapone (Hester) - 1821 - 161 pages
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British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Volume 11

1853 - 602 pages
...which vary in their complications, or in their rapidity, according to the habit of the individual. It is easier to say what it is not than what it is : it is not a plastic material; it is not a growth; it is not the manifestation of a depraved germinating...
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On Colour: And on the Necessity for a General Diffusion of Taste Among All ...

John Gardner Wilkinson - Aesthetics - 1858 - 482 pages
...definitions of it have been attempted ; all equally unsatisfactory. Nor does Winckelmann's remark, that it is easier to say what it is not, than what it is, assist in the solution. But it is not only difficult, it is useless, to attempt a definition. " The...
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The Debate Between the Church and Science, Or, The Ancient Hebraic Idea of ...

Bible and science - 1860 - 476 pages
...of spirit, and yet which is; and the universal awe it inspires is proof that it is a high reality. It is easier to say what it is not, than what it is. The soul pronounces that it is, and refuses to confound it with aught else that exists. were to be...
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An Emigrant's Five Years in the Free States of America

William Hancock (emigrant.) - United States - 1860 - 352 pages
...description as a lofty mountain, or the broad ocean, or anything else which must be felt to be enjoyed. It is easier to say what it is not, than what it is. There are no trees for miles together, no shrubs, no foliage of any kind. There is nothing but long...
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An Emigrant's Five Years in the Free States of America

William Hancock (emigrant.) - United States - 1860 - 368 pages
...description as a lofty mountain, or the broad ocean, or anything else which must be felt to be enjoyed. It is easier to say what it is not, than what it is. There are no trees for miles together, no shrubs, no foliage of any kind. There is nothing but long...
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Notes and Studies in the Philosophy of Animal Magnetism and Spiritualism ...

John Ashburner - Animal magnetism - 1867 - 480 pages
...term which signifies, ' I sinell.' The exact nature of this wonder-working substance (?) is unknown. It is easier to say what it is not, than what it is ; and not easy to give an intelligible account of it either way. The best we can do is to try and make...
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The Chicago Medical Journal, Volume 27

Medicine - 1870 - 790 pages
...protracted cases as well as those which prove suddenly fatal." It has been well said of this disease, it is easier to say what it is not than what it is. TREATMENT. There is no antidote known to the profession that will counteract the specific atic poison,...
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Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 7

1880 - 436 pages
...ft. 9.6 in.) from flour to architrave. "With reference to the idea involved in the body of the shaft, it is easier to say what it is not than what it is. The shaft is obviously not understood to be composed of separate stalks, like the bundle columns. But...
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The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 102

Medicine - 1880 - 642 pages
...medical books suggests, or candidly advises his patient to call in another doctor, is not a quack." It is easier to say what it is not than what it is. But the bill must be to protect people against some definite act or persons. In the public mind the...
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Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid

Charles Piazzi Smyth - Great Pyramid (Egypt) - 1880 - 752 pages
...Great Something, then, seems to be appointed to take place at that particular time, and it is much easier to say what it is not, than what it is. It is not, for instance, as just stated above, "the end of the world," — for there is a "passage-floor,"...
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