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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... Speculations of Newton and Clarke . - Digression with respect to the System of Spinoza . - Collins and Jona- than Edwards . - Anxiety of both to recon- cile the Scheme of Necessity with Man's Moral Agency . - Departure of some later ...
... Speculations of Newton and Clarke . - Digression with respect to the System of Spinoza . - Collins and Jona- than Edwards . - Anxiety of both to recon- cile the Scheme of Necessity with Man's Moral Agency . - Departure of some later ...
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... speculations which have been hitherto under our review . His veneration for Bacon seems , on this occa- sion , to have prevented him from giving due scope to his own powerful and fertile genius , and has engaged him in the fruitless ...
... speculations which have been hitherto under our review . His veneration for Bacon seems , on this occa- sion , to have prevented him from giving due scope to his own powerful and fertile genius , and has engaged him in the fruitless ...
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... most considerable under this head is Ethics , which is the seeking out those rules and measures of human actions which lead to happiness , and the means to practise them . The end of this is not bare speculation PREFACE . 15.
... most considerable under this head is Ethics , which is the seeking out those rules and measures of human actions which lead to happiness , and the means to practise them . The end of this is not bare speculation PREFACE . 15.
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Dugald Stewart. them . The end of this is not bare speculation , but right , and a conduct suitable to it . * " 3. Enpeiwtinn , or the doctrine of signs , the most usual whereof being words , it is aptly enough termed also Дoyixn , Logic ...
Dugald Stewart. them . The end of this is not bare speculation , but right , and a conduct suitable to it . * " 3. Enpeiwtinn , or the doctrine of signs , the most usual whereof being words , it is aptly enough termed also Дoyixn , Logic ...
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... speculations concerning the human mind , and is by no means destitute of merit . The publication was anonymous ; but I have rea- son to believe that the author was the late well known Governor Pownall . VOL . VI . 3 man mind , it is ...
... speculations concerning the human mind , and is by no means destitute of merit . The publication was anonymous ; but I have rea- son to believe that the author was the late well known Governor Pownall . VOL . VI . 3 man mind , it is ...
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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...