Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best Articles in that Journal, from Its Commencement to the Present Time, Volumes 3-4Baudry's European Library, 1835 |
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... reason of it , and discuss it , with the clearness , and , in some sort , the certainty of geometry itself . If he do not so reason of it , this must be for want of comprehension to image out the whole of it , or of distinctness to ...
... reason of it , and discuss it , with the clearness , and , in some sort , the certainty of geometry itself . If he do not so reason of it , this must be for want of comprehension to image out the whole of it , or of distinctness to ...
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... reasons with the nicest accuracy , on all matters where we understand his data . Fairer might it be in us to say that ... reason of man so readily allied , itself . That such a system must in the end become known among ourselves , as it ...
... reasons with the nicest accuracy , on all matters where we understand his data . Fairer might it be in us to say that ... reason of man so readily allied , itself . That such a system must in the end become known among ourselves , as it ...
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... Reason ( Ver- stand and Vernunft ) . To most of our readers this may seem a distinction without a difference ; nevertheless , to the Kantists it is by no means such . They believe that both Understanding and Reason are organs , or ...
... Reason ( Ver- stand and Vernunft ) . To most of our readers this may seem a distinction without a difference ; nevertheless , to the Kantists it is by no means such . They believe that both Understanding and Reason are organs , or ...
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... Reason , which it is appointed to obey , and cannot rule over , without ruin to the whole spiritual man . Should Understanding attempt to prove the existence of God , it ends , if thoroughgoing and con- sistent with itself , in Atheism ...
... Reason , which it is appointed to obey , and cannot rule over , without ruin to the whole spiritual man . Should Understanding attempt to prove the existence of God , it ends , if thoroughgoing and con- sistent with itself , in Atheism ...
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... reason to believe , of affluent fortune . In the long reign of Henry VIII , nothing more seems to have come from the press , to our present purpose , than Rastell's Pastime of People , a most jejune epitome of English history ; which ...
... reason to believe , of affluent fortune . In the long reign of Henry VIII , nothing more seems to have come from the press , to our present purpose , than Rastell's Pastime of People , a most jejune epitome of English history ; which ...
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Page 416 - And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Page 338 - I am conscious of myself as the perceiving subject, and of an external reality as the object perceived ; and I am conscious of both existences in the same indivisible moment of intuition.
Page 105 - The thinking minds of all nations call for change. There is a deep-lying struggle in the whole fabric of society ; a boundless grinding collision of the New with the Old.
Page 374 - As long as boys and girls run about in the dirt, and trundle hoops together, they are both precisely alike. If you catch up one-half of these creatures, and train them to a particular set of actions and opinions, and the other half to a perfectly opposite set, of course their understandings will differ as one or the other sort of occupations has called this or that talent into action.
Page 147 - Parliament," says Mr. Hallam, " it may be said, I think, with not greater severity than truth, that scarce two or three public acts of justice, humanity, or generosity, and very few of political wisdom or courage, are recorded of them, from their quarrel with the King, to their expulsion by Cromwell.
Page 378 - ... varieties of that celebrated language. Then women have, of course, all ignorant men for enemies to their instruction, who being bound (as they think), in point of sex, to know more, are not well pleased, in point of fact, to know less. But among men of sense and liberal politeness, a woman who has successfully cultivated her mind, without diminishing the gentleness and propriety of her manners, is always sure to meet with a respect and attention bordering upon enthusiasm.
Page 93 - Were we required to characterise this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but above all others, the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery in every outward and inward sense of that word; the age which, with its whole undivided might, forwards, teaches and practises the great art of adapting means to ends.
Page 192 - ... on the mountains in summer, and the tales and the sports that amuse the little groups that are frozen into their vast and trackless valleys in the winter. Add to all this, the traces of vast and obscure antiquity that are impressed on the language and the habits of the people, and on the cliffs, and caves, and gulfy torrents of the land ; and the solemn and touching reflection, perpetually recurring, of the weakness and insignificance of perishable man, whose generations thus pass away into oblivion,...
Page 293 - Few books have contributed more to rectify prejudice, to undermine established errors, to diffuse a just mode of thinking, to excite a fearless spirit of inquiry, and yet to contain it within the boundaries which Nature has prescribed to the human understanding.
Page 105 - He, who has been born, has been a First Man ;' has had lying before his young eyes, and as yet unhardened into scientific shapes, a world as plastic, infinite, divine, as lay before the eyes of Adam himself. If Mechanism, like some glass bell, encircles and imprisons us ; if the soul looks forth on a fair heavenly country which it cannot reach, and pines, and in its scanty atmosphere is ready to perish, — yet the bell is but of glass ; 'one bold stroke to break the bell in pieces, and thou art...