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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... opinions concerning the object of Philosophy , may perhaps , with some truth , be alleged ; but he must at least be allowed the merit of completely avoiding the error by which D'Alembert was misled ; and , even in those in- stances ...
... opinions concerning the object of Philosophy , may perhaps , with some truth , be alleged ; but he must at least be allowed the merit of completely avoiding the error by which D'Alembert was misled ; and , even in those in- stances ...
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... opinions of the learned , in favor of any one scheme of partition . To prefix , there- fore , such a scheme to a work which is professedly to be carried on by a set of unconnected writers , would be equally presumptuous and useless ...
... opinions of the learned , in favor of any one scheme of partition . To prefix , there- fore , such a scheme to a work which is professedly to be carried on by a set of unconnected writers , would be equally presumptuous and useless ...
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... opinions so long consecrated by time , and the adoption of a creed more pure in its principles , and more liberal in its spirit , could not fail to encourage , on all other subjects , a congenial freedom of inquiry . These circum ...
... opinions so long consecrated by time , and the adoption of a creed more pure in its principles , and more liberal in its spirit , could not fail to encourage , on all other subjects , a congenial freedom of inquiry . These circum ...
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... opinions both of divines and lawyers , Calvin treats the authority of Aristotle and that of the church with equal disregard . To the former , he opposes a close and logical argument , not unworthy of Mr. Bentham . In one of his letters ...
... opinions both of divines and lawyers , Calvin treats the authority of Aristotle and that of the church with equal disregard . To the former , he opposes a close and logical argument , not unworthy of Mr. Bentham . In one of his letters ...
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... opinions of the teacher , who first unfolded to their curi- osity the treasures of literature and the wonders of science . Thus error was perpetuated ; and , instead of yielding to time , acquired additional influence in each successive ...
... opinions of the teacher , who first unfolded to their curi- osity the treasures of literature and the wonders of science . Thus error was perpetuated ; and , instead of yielding to time , acquired additional influence in each successive ...
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Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 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.
Strana 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...