| Benjamin Franklin, Alfred Howard - 1834 - 206 pages
...this, my way is, to divide half a sheet of paper by a line into two colunms : writing over the one ^wo, and over the other con : then during three or four...I find a reason pro equal to some two reasons con, I strike out the three. If I judge some two reasons con, equal to some three reasons pro, I strike... | |
| 1841 - 520 pages
...at different times occur to me, for or against the measure. When I have thus got them all together in one view, I endeavour to estimate their respective...(one on each side) that seem equal. I strike them lioth out. If I find a reason pro equal to some two reasons соя, I strike out the three. If I judge... | |
| 1903 - 1300 pages
...1888. thus got them all together in one view, I endeavor to estimate their respective weights: ami, where I find two (one on each side) that seem equal,...them both out. If I find a reason pro equal to some tiro reasons con, I strike out the three. If I judge some two reasons con equal to some three, reasons... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1832 - 638 pages
...times occur to me for or against the mea•ure. When I estimate their respective weights, and when I find two (one on each side) that seem equal, I strike them both out. If I judge some two reasons con, equal to some three reasons pro, I strike out the five ; and thus proceeding,... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1817 - 596 pages
...at different times occur to me, for or against the measure. When I have thus got them all together in one view, I endeavour to estimate their respective weights, and where I and two (one on each side) that seem equal, I strike thtm both out. If I find a reason pro equal to... | |
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