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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... qu'il avoit de les soutenir ; et la liberté des opinions de Fontenelle à l'intérêt général , peut être quelquefois mal entendu , qu'il prenoit au progrès de la raison dans tous les genres . " What follows may be re- garded in the light ...
... qu'il avoit de les soutenir ; et la liberté des opinions de Fontenelle à l'intérêt général , peut être quelquefois mal entendu , qu'il prenoit au progrès de la raison dans tous les genres . " What follows may be re- garded in the light ...
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... qu'on avoit eu pour Aristote , ne prouvoit , disoit - il , que la multi- tude des sots et la durée de la sottise . " The merits of this writer are much too lightly . estimated by Brucker . See Hist . Phil . Tom . IV , Pars I. pp . 91 ...
... qu'on avoit eu pour Aristote , ne prouvoit , disoit - il , que la multi- tude des sots et la durée de la sottise . " The merits of this writer are much too lightly . estimated by Brucker . See Hist . Phil . Tom . IV , Pars I. pp . 91 ...
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... qu'il l'a dévêtu de son port farouche et maintien barbaresque , de manière qu'il a mes - hui assez de façon pour se présenter en toute bonne compagnie . ' , tance , they deviated so very little from the standard 98 [ PART I. PROGRESS OF ...
... qu'il l'a dévêtu de son port farouche et maintien barbaresque , de manière qu'il a mes - hui assez de façon pour se présenter en toute bonne compagnie . ' , tance , they deviated so very little from the standard 98 [ PART I. PROGRESS OF ...
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... qu'il est de bonne compagnie ! C'est mon ancien ami ; mais à force d'être ancien , il m'est nouveau . ' Madame de Sévigné . " " Montaigne himself seems , from the general strain of his writings , to have had but little expectation of ...
... qu'il est de bonne compagnie ! C'est mon ancien ami ; mais à force d'être ancien , il m'est nouveau . ' Madame de Sévigné . " " Montaigne himself seems , from the general strain of his writings , to have had but little expectation of ...
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... il nous apprend lui - même par une de ses lettres , qu'ayant établi clairement , dans cet ouvrage , la distinction de l'âme et de la matière , il suivoit nécessairement de cette distinction , que l'âme par sa nature ne pouvoit périr ...
... il nous apprend lui - même par une de ses lettres , qu'ayant établi clairement , dans cet ouvrage , la distinction de l'âme et de la matière , il suivoit nécessairement de cette distinction , que l'âme par sa nature ne pouvoit périr ...
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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 308 - 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 416 - 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 389 - Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the zealots.
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 445 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Página 445 - Yet there happened, in my time, one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare, or pass by, a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.
Página 211 - The understanding seems to me not to have the least glimmering of any ideas which it doth not receive from one of these two. External objects furnish the mind with the ideas of sensible qualities, which are all those different perceptions they produce in us; and the mind furnishes the understanding with ideas of its own operations.
Página 209 - Let the ideas of being and matter be strongly joined, either by education or much thought; whilst these are still combined in the mind, what notions, what reasonings, will there be about separate spirits? Let custom from the very childhood have joined figure and shape to the idea of God, and what absurdities will that mind be liable to about the Deity?