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... evident , that the metaphysical opinions , which we may happen to have formed concerning the nature either of body or of mind , and the efficient causes by which their phenomena are produced , have no necessary connection with our in ...
... evident , that the metaphysical opinions , which we may happen to have formed concerning the nature either of body or of mind , and the efficient causes by which their phenomena are produced , have no necessary connection with our in ...
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... evident , than the necessity of limiting the field of our exertion , if we wish to benefit society by our labours . But it is perfectly consistent with the most intense application to our favourite pursuit , to cultivate that general ...
... evident , than the necessity of limiting the field of our exertion , if we wish to benefit society by our labours . But it is perfectly consistent with the most intense application to our favourite pursuit , to cultivate that general ...
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... evident , than that the bulk of mankind , condemned as they are to laborious occupations which are incompatible with intel- lectual improvement , are perfectly , incapable of forming their own opinions on some of the most important ...
... evident , than that the bulk of mankind , condemned as they are to laborious occupations which are incompatible with intel- lectual improvement , are perfectly , incapable of forming their own opinions on some of the most important ...
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... evident that it would be of the highest importance in all the sciences , ( in some of them , indeed , much more than in others , ) to exhibit a pre- cise and steady idea of the objects which they present to our inquiry . What was the ...
... evident that it would be of the highest importance in all the sciences , ( in some of them , indeed , much more than in others , ) to exhibit a pre- cise and steady idea of the objects which they present to our inquiry . What was the ...
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... evident to those who have reflected on the nature of the general terms which abound more or less in every cultivated language ; and which may be considered as one species of instrumen- tal aid , which art has discovered to our ...
... evident to those who have reflected on the nature of the general terms which abound more or less in every cultivated language ; and which may be considered as one species of instrumen- tal aid , which art has discovered to our ...
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Page 245 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Page 249 - And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer dy'd three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipt me in Ink, my parents, or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd. The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not Wife, To help me thro...
Page 11 - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Page 60 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 245 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Page 419 - I beheld his body half wasted away with long expectation and confinement, and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was which arises from hope deferred. Upon looking nearer, I saw him pale and feverish ; in thirty years the western breeze had not once fanned his blood ; — he had seen no sun, no moon, in all that time ; — nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice ! — His children ! — But here my heart began to bleed ; and I was forced to go on with another part...
Page 461 - ... of them particular in their existence, even those words and ideas which in their signification are general. When therefore we quit particulars, the generals that rest are only creatures of our own making, their general nature being nothing but the capacity they are put into by the understanding of signifying or representing many particulars. For the signification they have is nothing but a relation that by the mind of man is added to them.
Page 461 - ... ideas are general, when they are set up as the representatives of many particular things : but universality belongs not to things themselves, which are all of them particular in their existence; even those words and ideas, which in their signification are general.
Page 415 - To cheer the shivering native's dull abode. And oft, beneath the od'rous shade Of Chili's boundless forests laid, She deigns to hear the savage youth repeat, In loose numbers wildly sweet, Their feather-cinctured chiefs, and dusky loves. Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and generous Shame, Th' unconquerable Mind, and Freedom's holy flame. 11.3. Woods, that wave o'er Delphi's steep. Isles that crown th...
Page 96 - One of these is the proposition that any two sides of a triangle are greater than the third side.