The Works of Dugald Stewart: Dissertation exhibiting a general view of the progress of metaphysical, ethical and political philosophy, since the revival of letters in EuropeHilliard and Brown, 1829 |
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... completely blend- ed the two subjects together , that it is often impossible to say which of them was uppermost in his thoughts . The consequence is , that , instead of throwing upon eith- er those strong and steady lights , which might ...
... completely blend- ed the two subjects together , that it is often impossible to say which of them was uppermost in his thoughts . The consequence is , that , instead of throwing upon eith- er those strong and steady lights , which might ...
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... completely disappointed ; -no reference to it whatever being made by the author in the farther prosecution of his subject . It forms , accordingly , a portion of his Discourse altogether foreign to the general design ; while , from the ...
... completely disappointed ; -no reference to it whatever being made by the author in the farther prosecution of his subject . It forms , accordingly , a portion of his Discourse altogether foreign to the general design ; while , from the ...
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... completely at va- riance , not only with the language and arrangement adopt- ed in these preliminary essays , but with the whole of that plan on which the original projectors , as well as the con- tinuators , of the Encyclopædia ...
... completely at va- riance , not only with the language and arrangement adopt- ed in these preliminary essays , but with the whole of that plan on which the original projectors , as well as the con- tinuators , of the Encyclopædia ...
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... completely dissimilar , or rather more diametrically opposite , in all their characteristical attri- butes ? Is not the one the appropriate field and province of observation , -a power habitually awake to all the perceptions and ...
... completely dissimilar , or rather more diametrically opposite , in all their characteristical attri- butes ? Is not the one the appropriate field and province of observation , -a power habitually awake to all the perceptions and ...
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... completely ignorant ; adhering to whatever creed the wind of doctrine may have driven them , as if it were the only tock on which their safety depended . " Cic . Lucullus , 3 . is , comparatively speaking , at an end . The 30 [ PART I ...
... completely ignorant ; adhering to whatever creed the wind of doctrine may have driven them , as if it were the only tock on which their safety depended . " Cic . Lucullus , 3 . is , comparatively speaking , at an end . The 30 [ PART I ...
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الصفحة 272 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
الصفحة 302 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
الصفحة 209 - Secondly. The other fountain, from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is the perception of the operations of our own minds within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got; which operations when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas which could not be had from things without...
الصفحة 406 - SINCE the mind, in all its thoughts and reasonings, hath no other immediate object but its own ideas, which it alone does or can contemplate ; it is evident, that our knowledge is only conversant about them.
الصفحة 238 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
الصفحة 193 - Were it fit to trouble thee with the history of this Essay, I should tell thee, that five or six friends meeting at my chamber, and discoursing on a subject very remote from this, found themselves quickly at a stand, by the difficulties that rose on every side.
الصفحة 435 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of [his] own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss.
الصفحة 209 - ... the perception of the operations of our own mind within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got; which operations when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas which could not be had from things without; and such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing, and all the different actings of our own minds...
الصفحة 141 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being mis-led by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another.
الصفحة 221 - ... than fifteen, if he will consider and compute those numbers; nor can he be surer in a clear morning that the sun is risen, if he will but open his eyes and turn them that way. But yet, these truths being...