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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... learned and judicious writer : - " On a fait cependant à Bacon quelques reproches assez fondés . On a observé que sa classification des sciences repose sur une distinction qui n'est pas rigoureuse , puis- que la mémoire , la raison , et ...
... learned and judicious writer : - " On a fait cependant à Bacon quelques reproches assez fondés . On a observé que sa classification des sciences repose sur une distinction qui n'est pas rigoureuse , puis- que la mémoire , la raison , et ...
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... learned a comprehensive sketch , than an accurate survey of the intellectual world ; --such a sketch as , by pointing out to those whose views had been hitherto confined within the limits of particular regions , the relative positions ...
... learned a comprehensive sketch , than an accurate survey of the intellectual world ; --such a sketch as , by pointing out to those whose views had been hitherto confined within the limits of particular regions , the relative positions ...
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... learned authors , who , from time to time , heave the log into the deep , we should hardly believe that the rea- son of the species is progressive . In this respect , the religious and academical establishments in some parts of Europe ...
... learned authors , who , from time to time , heave the log into the deep , we should hardly believe that the rea- son of the species is progressive . In this respect , the religious and academical establishments in some parts of Europe ...
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... learned , in favor of any one scheme of partition . To prefix , there- fore , such a scheme to a work which is professedly to be carried on by a set of unconnected writers , would be equally presumptuous and useless ; and , on the most ...
... learned , in favor of any one scheme of partition . To prefix , there- fore , such a scheme to a work which is professedly to be carried on by a set of unconnected writers , would be equally presumptuous and useless ; and , on the most ...
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... learned Greeks took refuge in Italy , where the taste for literature already introduced by Dante , Petrarch , and Boccacio , together with the liberal patronage of the illustrious House of Medicis , secured them a welcome re- ception ...
... learned Greeks took refuge in Italy , where the taste for literature already introduced by Dante , Petrarch , and Boccacio , together with the liberal patronage of the illustrious House of Medicis , secured them a welcome re- ception ...
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Página 474 - And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you ; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Página 278 - 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...
Página 143 - ... 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 misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Página 476 - I think it is easy to draw this observation, that the ideas of primary qualities of bodies, are resemblances of them, and their patterns do really exist in the bodies themselves; but the ideas, produced in us by these secondary qualities, have no resemblance of them at all. There is nothing like our ideas, existing in the bodies themselves.
Página 415 - But this universal and primary opinion of all men is soon destroyed by the slightest philosophy which teaches us that nothing can ever be present to the mind but an image or perception...
Página 391 - Tis evident, that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature ; and that however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another. Even Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Natural Religion, are in some measure dependent on the science of MAN ; since they lie under the cognizance of men, and are judged of by their powers and faculties.
Página 195 - 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.
Página 400 - ... all our reasonings concerning causes and effects are derived from nothing but custom, and that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive than of the cogitative part of our natures.
Página 404 - One event follows another; but we never can observe any tie between them. They seem conjoined, but never connected. And as we can have no idea of any thing which never appeared to our outward sense or inward sentiment, the necessary conclusion seems to be, that we have no idea of connexion or power at all, and that these words are absolutely without any meaning, when employed either in philosophical reasonings or common life.
Página 240 - 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.