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Pagina 19
... pursuits of life , have this common tendency to lead our inquiries to the philosophy of human nature , this last branch of knowledge borrows its princi- ples from no other science whatever . Hence there is fomething in the study of it ...
... pursuits of life , have this common tendency to lead our inquiries to the philosophy of human nature , this last branch of knowledge borrows its princi- ples from no other science whatever . Hence there is fomething in the study of it ...
Pagina 21
... pursuit which has not habits peculiar to itself ; and which does not leave fome powers of the mind dormant , while it ... pursuits , whether fpeculative or active , that we are to expect to find the human mind in its highest state of ...
... pursuit which has not habits peculiar to itself ; and which does not leave fome powers of the mind dormant , while it ... pursuits , whether fpeculative or active , that we are to expect to find the human mind in its highest state of ...
Pagina 22
... pursuit , to cultivate that general acquaintance with letters and with the world , which may be fufficient to enlarge ... pursuits , may furnish us with useful helps for the farther profecution of our own . But even in those inftances in ...
... pursuit , to cultivate that general acquaintance with letters and with the world , which may be fufficient to enlarge ... pursuits , may furnish us with useful helps for the farther profecution of our own . But even in those inftances in ...
Pagina 40
... pursuits that are truly worthy and honourable ? —There are few men to be found , among those who have received the ad- vantages of a liberal education , who do not retain , through life , that admiration of the heroic ages of Greece and ...
... pursuits that are truly worthy and honourable ? —There are few men to be found , among those who have received the ad- vantages of a liberal education , who do not retain , through life , that admiration of the heroic ages of Greece and ...
Pagina 46
... pursuit of truth . As a philofophical fyftem of logic would affift us in our particular scientific investigations , by keeping fteadily in our view the attainable objects of human ... pursuits , which are in any 46 ELEMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY.
... pursuit of truth . As a philofophical fyftem of logic would affift us in our particular scientific investigations , by keeping fteadily in our view the attainable objects of human ... pursuits , which are in any 46 ELEMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY.
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Populaire passages
Pagina 133 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Pagina 479 - In thirty years the western breeze had not once fanned his blood : he had seen no sun, no moon, in all that time, nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice : his children — but here my heart began to bleed, and I was forced to go on with another part of the portrait.
Pagina 483 - Though it may be true, therefore, that every individual, in his own breast, naturally prefers himself to all mankind, yet he dares not look mankind in the face, and avow that he acts according to this principle. He feels that in this preference they can never go along with him, and that how natural soever it may be to him, it must always appear excessive and extravagant to them.
Pagina 442 - ... this idle way of reading and considering things. By this means, time even in solitude is happily got rid of, without the pain of attention : neither is any part of it more put to the account of idleness, one can scarce forbear saying, is spent with less thought, than great part of that which is spent in reading.
Pagina 263 - Rome, therefore, it was regarded as the mark of a good citizen never to despair of the fortunes of the republic, so the good citizen of the world, whatever may be the political aspect of his own times, will never despair of the fortunes of the human race, but will act upon the conviction, that...
Pagina 223 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Pagina 76 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.
Pagina 281 - With all th' embroidery plaster'd at thy tail ? They might (were Harpax not too wise to spend) Give Harpax self the blessing of a friend ; Or find some doctor that would save the life Of wretched Shylock, spite of Shylock's wife ; But thousands die, without or this or that, Die, and endow a college, or a cat.
Pagina 482 - Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care ; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so.
Pagina 530 - But, going over the theory of virtue in one's thoughts, talking well, and drawing fine pictures of it, this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of it in him who thus employs himself, that it may harden the mind in a contrary course, and render it gradually more insensible, ie form a habit of insensibility to all moral considerations.