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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... 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 where he himself seems to wander a little from the right path , of ...
... 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 where he himself seems to wander a little from the right path , of ...
Pagina 7
... truth is , that , to the geom- eter who invents , Imagination is not less essential than to the poet who creates . They operate , indeed , differently on their object , the former abstracting and analyzing , where the latter combines ...
... truth is , that , to the geom- eter who invents , Imagination is not less essential than to the poet who creates . They operate , indeed , differently on their object , the former abstracting and analyzing , where the latter combines ...
Pagina 15
... truth ; and whatsoever can afford the mind of man any such , falls under this branch , whether it be God himself , angels , spirits , bodies , or any of their af- fections , as number and figure , & c . " 2. Пραxτixn , The skill of ...
... truth ; and whatsoever can afford the mind of man any such , falls under this branch , whether it be God himself , angels , spirits , bodies , or any of their af- fections , as number and figure , & c . " 2. Пραxτixn , The skill of ...
Pagina 16
... truth , or about the things in his own power , which are his own actions for the attainment of his own ends ; or the signs the mind makes use of , both in one and the other , and the right ordering of them for its clearer information ...
... truth , or about the things in his own power , which are his own actions for the attainment of his own ends ; or the signs the mind makes use of , both in one and the other , and the right ordering of them for its clearer information ...
Pagina 27
... truth , they become the most powerful of all aux- aries to the authority of established errors . It was long a proverbial saying among the ecclesiastics of the Romish church , that " Erasmus laid the egg , and Luther hatched it ; " and ...
... truth , they become the most powerful of all aux- aries to the authority of established errors . It was long a proverbial saying among the ecclesiastics of the Romish church , that " Erasmus laid the egg , and Luther hatched it ; " and ...
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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...