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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... argument , not unworthy of Mr. Bentham . In one of his letters he writes thus : " Ego simpliciter credo , quod impossibile sit ecclesiam reformari , nisi funditus canones , decretales , scholastica theologia , phi- losophia , logica ...
... argument , not unworthy of Mr. Bentham . In one of his letters he writes thus : " Ego simpliciter credo , quod impossibile sit ecclesiam reformari , nisi funditus canones , decretales , scholastica theologia , phi- losophia , logica ...
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... argument against the then fashionable doctrine of the Realists con- cerning general ideas , that Leibnitz thought it worth while , a century afterwards , to republish it , with the addition of a long and valuable preface written by ...
... argument against the then fashionable doctrine of the Realists con- cerning general ideas , that Leibnitz thought it worth while , a century afterwards , to republish it , with the addition of a long and valuable preface written by ...
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... argument to prove , that , in a well constituted state , the father should possess the right of life and death over his children ; -a paradox which forms an unaccountable contrast to the general tone of humanity which charac- terizes ...
... argument to prove , that , in a well constituted state , the father should possess the right of life and death over his children ; -a paradox which forms an unaccountable contrast to the general tone of humanity which charac- terizes ...
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... argument in support of his gen- eral conclusion . The merits of Bodin have been , on the whole , very fairly estimated by Bayle , who pronounces him " one of the ablest men that appeared in France during the sixteenth century . " " Si ...
... argument in support of his gen- eral conclusion . The merits of Bodin have been , on the whole , very fairly estimated by Bayle , who pronounces him " one of the ablest men that appeared in France during the sixteenth century . " " Si ...
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... book of Ramus's Dialectics , where the same charge is urged , in my opinion , with irresistible force of argument . political economy did not exist . Princes estimated not the 56 [ PART . I. PROGRESS OF METAPHYSICAL , ETHICAL ,
... book of Ramus's Dialectics , where the same charge is urged , in my opinion , with irresistible force of argument . political economy did not exist . Princes estimated not the 56 [ PART . I. PROGRESS OF METAPHYSICAL , ETHICAL ,
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...