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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... attention to the essential difference between the history of the human species , and that of the civilized and inquisitive individual . The former was undoubtedly that which principally figured in his conceptions ; and to The true ...
... attention to the essential difference between the history of the human species , and that of the civilized and inquisitive individual . The former was undoubtedly that which principally figured in his conceptions ; and to The true ...
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... attention on those great lights of the world by whom the torch of science has been successively seized and transmit- ted . * It is in fact such leading characters alone which * I have ventured here to combine a scriptural expression ...
... attention on those great lights of the world by whom the torch of science has been successively seized and transmit- ted . * It is in fact such leading characters alone which * I have ventured here to combine a scriptural expression ...
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... attention has been given to those of the microscope , -which , however , it is probable , contributed not a little to prepare the way for the modern revival of the Atomic or Corpuscular Philosophy , by Bacon , Gassendi , and Newton ...
... attention has been given to those of the microscope , -which , however , it is probable , contributed not a little to prepare the way for the modern revival of the Atomic or Corpuscular Philosophy , by Bacon , Gassendi , and Newton ...
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... attention occurs in any of these departments prior to the seventeenth century ; and nothing which bears the most remote anal- ogy to the rapid strides made , during the sixteenth , in mathematics , astronomy , and physics . The ...
... attention occurs in any of these departments prior to the seventeenth century ; and nothing which bears the most remote anal- ogy to the rapid strides made , during the sixteenth , in mathematics , astronomy , and physics . The ...
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... attention to ob- jects of national and permanent utility . How encourag- ing the prospect thus opened of the future history of the world ! and what a motive to animate the ambition of those , who , in the solitude of the closet , aspire ...
... attention to ob- jects of national and permanent utility . How encourag- ing the prospect thus opened of the future history of the world ! and what a motive to animate the ambition of those , who , in the solitude of the closet , aspire ...
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...