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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... never imagining or creating objects but such as are analogous to those whereof it has had previous experience . Where this analogy is wanting , the combinations are extravagant and displeas- ing ; and , consequently , in that agreeable ...
... never imagining or creating objects but such as are analogous to those whereof it has had previous experience . Where this analogy is wanting , the combinations are extravagant and displeas- ing ; and , consequently , in that agreeable ...
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... never fails to interest the fancy and to lay hold of the memory . Nor must it be forgotten , to the glory of his genius , that what he failed to accomplish remains to this day a desideratum in science , that the intellectual chart ...
... never fails to interest the fancy and to lay hold of the memory . Nor must it be forgotten , to the glory of his genius , that what he failed to accomplish remains to this day a desideratum in science , that the intellectual chart ...
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... never , certainly , was there a single mind more equal to such an undertaking . The his- torical outline which he has there traced , forms by far the most valuable portion of that performance , and will for ever remain a proud monument ...
... never , certainly , was there a single mind more equal to such an undertaking . The his- torical outline which he has there traced , forms by far the most valuable portion of that performance , and will for ever remain a proud monument ...
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... never to be forgot- ten change in the literary taste of the eighteenth century , " which has every where turned the spirit of philosophical inquiry from frivolous or abstruse speculations , to the business and affairs of men . " * * Dr ...
... never to be forgot- ten change in the literary taste of the eighteenth century , " which has every where turned the spirit of philosophical inquiry from frivolous or abstruse speculations , to the business and affairs of men . " * * Dr ...
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... never before experienced . The productions of climates situated under the equator , were consumed in countries bordering on the pole ; the industry of the north was transplanted to the south ; and the inhabitants of the west were ...
... never before experienced . The productions of climates situated under the equator , were consumed in countries bordering on the pole ; the industry of the north was transplanted to the south ; and the inhabitants of the west were ...
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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...