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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... present advanced state of the sciences ; while the unri- valled authority which their united work has long main- tained in the republic of letters , would , I flattered my- self , have softened those criticisms which might be expected ...
... present advanced state of the sciences ; while the unri- valled authority which their united work has long main- tained in the republic of letters , would , I flattered my- self , have softened those criticisms which might be expected ...
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... present , are confined to a compara- tively small number of recluse metaphysicians . His Of this sort of conjectural or theoretical history , the most unexceptionable specimens which have yet ap- peared , are indisputably the fragments ...
... present , are confined to a compara- tively small number of recluse metaphysicians . His Of this sort of conjectural or theoretical history , the most unexceptionable specimens which have yet ap- peared , are indisputably the fragments ...
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... present occasion it would be quite superfluous to follow him any farther , as more than enough has been already quoted to enable my readers to judge , whether the objections which I am now to state to the foregoing extracts be as sound ...
... present occasion it would be quite superfluous to follow him any farther , as more than enough has been already quoted to enable my readers to judge , whether the objections which I am now to state to the foregoing extracts be as sound ...
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... present the most alien from each other ! The abstract geometry of Apollonius and Archimedes , was found , after an interval of two thousand years , to furnish a torch to the physical inquiries of Newton ; while , in the further progress ...
... present the most alien from each other ! The abstract geometry of Apollonius and Archimedes , was found , after an interval of two thousand years , to furnish a torch to the physical inquiries of Newton ; while , in the further progress ...
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... present occasion , to consider how far it is founded on just principles ; more especially as it is completely at va- riance , not only with the language and arrangement adopt- ed in these preliminary essays , but with the whole of that ...
... present occasion , to consider how far it is founded on just principles ; more especially as it is completely at va- riance , not only with the language and arrangement adopt- ed in these preliminary essays , but with the whole of that ...
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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...