The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Volume 1T. Constable and Company [etc. ], 1854 - 480 pagina's |
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... physical inquiries of Newton ; while , in the farther progress of knowledge , the Ety- mology of Languages has been happily employed to fill up the chasms of Ancient History ; and the conclusions of Compara- tive Anatomy , to illustrate ...
... physical inquiries of Newton ; while , in the farther progress of knowledge , the Ety- mology of Languages has been happily employed to fill up the chasms of Ancient History ; and the conclusions of Compara- tive Anatomy , to illustrate ...
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... physical and mathematical discoveries of former ages present themselves to the hand of the historian like masses of pure and native gold , the truths which we are here in quest of may be compared to iron , which , although at once the ...
... physical and mathematical discoveries of former ages present themselves to the hand of the historian like masses of pure and native gold , the truths which we are here in quest of may be compared to iron , which , although at once the ...
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... physical knowledge , he was far inferior to many of his predecessors ; but he surpassed them all in his knowledge of the laws , the resources , and the limits of the human understanding . The sanguine expectations with which he looked ...
... physical knowledge , he was far inferior to many of his predecessors ; but he surpassed them all in his knowledge of the laws , the resources , and the limits of the human understanding . The sanguine expectations with which he looked ...
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... Physical Science ; disdaining to avail himself even of the materials collected by his predecessors , and treating the experimentarian philosophers as objects only of contempt and ridicule ! 1 In the political writings of Hobbes , we may ...
... Physical Science ; disdaining to avail himself even of the materials collected by his predecessors , and treating the experimentarian philosophers as objects only of contempt and ridicule ! 1 In the political writings of Hobbes , we may ...
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... physical events , which it is the business of the natural philosopher to ascertain , 1 and the sub- stance of his argument against the scholastic doctrine of general conceptions . It is from the works of Hobbes , too , that our later ...
... physical events , which it is the business of the natural philosopher to ascertain , 1 and the sub- stance of his argument against the scholastic doctrine of general conceptions . It is from the works of Hobbes , too , that our later ...
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