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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... evidence , or without any attempt to compare and to generalize ? For the cultivation of that species of history , in particular , which alone deserves a place in the Ency- clopedical Tree , it may be justly affirmed , that the rarest ...
... evidence , or without any attempt to compare and to generalize ? For the cultivation of that species of history , in particular , which alone deserves a place in the Ency- clopedical Tree , it may be justly affirmed , that the rarest ...
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... evidence of sense , asserting that it was from a passage in Aristotle , where he attempts to explain why stars become visible in the daytime when viewed from the bottom of a deep well , that the invention of the telescope was borrowed ...
... evidence of sense , asserting that it was from a passage in Aristotle , where he attempts to explain why stars become visible in the daytime when viewed from the bottom of a deep well , that the invention of the telescope was borrowed ...
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... evidence of the growing influence , even at that era , of better ethical principles than those commonly imputed to the Florentine Secretary . * The only other Italian of whom I shall take notice at present , is Campanella ; † a ...
... evidence of the growing influence , even at that era , of better ethical principles than those commonly imputed to the Florentine Secretary . * The only other Italian of whom I shall take notice at present , is Campanella ; † a ...
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... evidence of the inco this anecdote . - Mr . Abraham Hill , ( in his Account of the Life of Barrow to Dr. Tillotson , ) contents himself with saying , that " Some of his se written four or five times over ; " —mentioning , at the same ...
... evidence of the inco this anecdote . - Mr . Abraham Hill , ( in his Account of the Life of Barrow to Dr. Tillotson , ) contents himself with saying , that " Some of his se written four or five times over ; " —mentioning , at the same ...
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... evidence , tacitly recognises the authori- ty of human reason ; and assumes , as the ultimate criteria of truth and of falsehood , of right and of wrong , certain fundamental articles of belief , discoverable by the light of Nature ...
... evidence , tacitly recognises the authori- ty of human reason ; and assumes , as the ultimate criteria of truth and of falsehood , of right and of wrong , certain fundamental articles of belief , discoverable by the light of Nature ...
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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...