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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... inquiries . What he has in general pointed at , is to trace , from the theory of the Mind , and from the order followed by nature in the developement of its powers , the successive steps by which the curiosity may be conceived to have ...
... inquiries . What he has in general pointed at , is to trace , from the theory of the Mind , and from the order followed by nature in the developement of its powers , the successive steps by which the curiosity may be conceived to have ...
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... inquiries of Newton ; while , in the further progress of knowledge , the Etymology of Languages has been happi- ly employed to fill up the chasms of Ancient History ; and the conclusions of Comparative Anatomy to illustrate the theory ...
... inquiries of Newton ; while , in the further progress of knowledge , the Etymology of Languages has been happi- ly employed to fill up the chasms of Ancient History ; and the conclusions of Comparative Anatomy to illustrate the theory ...
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... inquiries , above all , where we have occasion to consider Matter and Mind as conspiring to produce the same joint effects ( in the constitution , for example , of our own com- pounded frame ) , it becomes more peculiarly necessary to ...
... inquiries , above all , where we have occasion to consider Matter and Mind as conspiring to produce the same joint effects ( in the constitution , for example , of our own com- pounded frame ) , it becomes more peculiarly necessary to ...
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... Inquiries , Part III . chap . i . 4 alive , during so many centuries , those scattered sparks CHAP . I. ] 25 AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY . CHAPTER I From the Revival of Letters to the Publication of Bacon's Philo- sophical Works CHAPTER II.
... Inquiries , Part III . chap . i . 4 alive , during so many centuries , those scattered sparks CHAP . I. ] 25 AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY . CHAPTER I From the Revival of Letters to the Publication of Bacon's Philo- sophical Works CHAPTER II.
Pagina 26
... inquiry from frivolous or abstruse speculations , to the business and affairs of men . " * * Dr. Robertson from whom I quote these words , has mentioned this change as The revival of letters may be considered as coeval with 26 [ PART I ...
... inquiry from frivolous or abstruse speculations , to the business and affairs of men . " * * Dr. Robertson from whom I quote these words , has mentioned this change as The revival of letters may be considered as coeval with 26 [ PART I ...
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Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...