"A metaphysician, exploring the recesses of the human heart, hath just such a chance for finding the truth, as a man with microscopic eyes would have, for, finding the road."
An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth; in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism
10 entries in ESTC (1770, 1771, 1772, 1773, 1774, 1777, 1778).<br>
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Beattie, James. <u>An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth; in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism</u> (Edinburgh: A Kincaid & J. Bell, 1770). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW121716299&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from corrected and enlarged second edition of 1771. &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=1ekYAAAAYAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;