Elements of Moral Science, Svazek 1T. Cadell, 1790 - Počet stran: 688 |
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... Language , Memory , and Imagination , he has made this abridgement as brief as was confiftent with any degree of perfpi- cuity . Some may think , that he ought to have left out those parts ; and he once thought 1 thought fo himself ...
... Language , Memory , and Imagination , he has made this abridgement as brief as was confiftent with any degree of perfpi- cuity . Some may think , that he ought to have left out those parts ; and he once thought 1 thought fo himself ...
Strana vii
... Language , Sect . 4. External Senfation . Tafting , Smell , & c . " Sect . 5. Consciousness , Sect . 6. Memory , Sect . 7. Imagination , Sect . 8. Dreaming , Sect . 9. Secondary Senfations , Sect . 10. Sympathy , Sect.11 . Tafte , ix ...
... Language , Sect . 4. External Senfation . Tafting , Smell , & c . " Sect . 5. Consciousness , Sect . 6. Memory , Sect . 7. Imagination , Sect . 8. Dreaming , Sect . 9. Secondary Senfations , Sect . 10. Sympathy , Sect.11 . Tafte , ix ...
Strana 5
... language of modern philofo- phy , to have an idea or a notion of it . Har bere notionem rei alicujus , is a Latin phrase of like import . 13. The word idea has been applied to many purposes ; and , from the inaccurate manner in which ...
... language of modern philofo- phy , to have an idea or a notion of it . Har bere notionem rei alicujus , is a Latin phrase of like import . 13. The word idea has been applied to many purposes ; and , from the inaccurate manner in which ...
Strana 10
... language . All those thoughts or conceptions of the mind , which we exprefs by names fignifi- cant of genera and fpecies , may be called General Ideas , and have been by fome phi- lofophers called Ideas fimply . And those thoughts or ...
... language . All those thoughts or conceptions of the mind , which we exprefs by names fignifi- cant of genera and fpecies , may be called General Ideas , and have been by fome phi- lofophers called Ideas fimply . And those thoughts or ...
Strana 11
... the meaning and use of ge- neral terms , or common appellatives . Pro- per names occur in language much more feldom than general terms . And there- fore , B 2 1 fore , if we had not this faculty of Ch . I. 1. MORAL SCIENCE .
... the meaning and use of ge- neral terms , or common appellatives . Pro- per names occur in language much more feldom than general terms . And there- fore , B 2 1 fore , if we had not this faculty of Ch . I. 1. MORAL SCIENCE .
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Strana 315 - ... it does not give the mind such an exquisite gladness, prevents us from falling into any depths of sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
Strana 99 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts: others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention.
Strana 301 - External evils, which we cannot prevent, or could not avoid without a breach of duty, it is manly and honourable to bear with fortitude.
Strana 3 - ... what ought to be done and what ought not to be done...
Strana 306 - ... in far lefs danger of infelicity ; and has before him the animating hope of victory and honour. So in life : the man of true fortitude is in lefs danger of...
Strana 101 - We would preserve the doctrines, sentiments, or facts, that occur in reading, it will be prudent to lay the book aside, and put them in writing in our own words. This practice will give accuracy to our knowledge, accustom us to recollection, improve us in the use of language, and enable us so thoroughly to comprehend the thoughts of other men, as to make them in some measure our own.
Strana 221 - A not altogether satisfactory definition, as it assumes something concerning the animal which it would be hard to prove. Here is a more recent definition. ' Instinct is action taken in pursuance of an end, but without conscious perception of what that end is.' 6 This again does not quite satisfy me...
Strana 176 - By attention and exercise it may be improved in every man. It prepares the mind for receiving the impressions of virtue; and. without it there can be no true politeness. Nothing is more odious, than that insensibility which wraps a man up in himself and his own concerns, and prevents his being moved with either the joys or the sorrows of another.
Strana 306 - ... danger of infelicity, and has before him the animating hope of victory and honour. So, in life, the man of true fortitude is in less danger of disappointment than others are, because his understanding is clear, and his mind disencumbered. He is prepared to meet calamity without the fear of sinking...