Philosophical EssaysGeorge Ramsay and Company, 1816 - 615 pages |
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... circumstances , or the legitimate offspring of our rational powers . Even our assent to the proposition , that twice two is four , is ( ac- cording to him ) only a particular case of the same general law . " The cause that a person ...
... circumstances , or the legitimate offspring of our rational powers . Even our assent to the proposition , that twice two is four , is ( ac- cording to him ) only a particular case of the same general law . " The cause that a person ...
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... circumstances which have probably contributed not a little to the popularity of his book , among a very numerous class of inquirers . For my own part , notwithstanding the ridicule to which I may expose myself , by the timidity of.
... circumstances which have probably contributed not a little to the popularity of his book , among a very numerous class of inquirers . For my own part , notwithstanding the ridicule to which I may expose myself , by the timidity of.
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... circumstances where the most profound mechani- cian would be totally at a loss how to avail himself of his knowledge ! The philosopher himself , the first time he is at sea , cannot cease to wonder , when he observes the theorems ...
... circumstances where the most profound mechani- cian would be totally at a loss how to avail himself of his knowledge ! The philosopher himself , the first time he is at sea , cannot cease to wonder , when he observes the theorems ...
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... circumstances which , I doubt not , will incline those to whom they are known to judge of the execution with some degree of indulgence . PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS . PART FIRST . ESSAY FIRST . ON Chap . II . PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION . 69.
... circumstances which , I doubt not , will incline those to whom they are known to judge of the execution with some degree of indulgence . PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS . PART FIRST . ESSAY FIRST . ON Chap . II . PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION . 69.
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... circumstances of the question . The grounds of this observation I shall endeavour to explain with all possible brevity ; but , before proceeding to the discussion , it is necessary to premise some remarks on a principle of our consti ...
... circumstances of the question . The grounds of this observation I shall endeavour to explain with all possible brevity ; but , before proceeding to the discussion , it is necessary to premise some remarks on a principle of our consti ...
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Page 178 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Page 410 - Awake, /Eolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take ; The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres...
Page 84 - ... 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; which we being conscious of and observing in ourselves, do from these receive into our understandings as distinct ideas, as we do from bodies affecting our senses.
Page 445 - Look then abroad through Nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene, With half that kindling majesty, dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of...
Page 89 - I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room; for methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without: would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding of a man in reference to all objects of sight and the ideas of them.
Page 508 - In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page 444 - The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook: And of those demons that are found In fire, air, flood, or under ground, Whose power hath a true consent With planet, or with element. Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine; Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage.
Page 444 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear...
Page 442 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth on to meet the armed men.
Page 84 - 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...