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Dugald Stewart. The notions we annex to the words , matter , and mind , as is well remarked by Dr. Reid , * are merely relative . If I am asked what I mean by matter ? I can only explain myself by saying , it is that which is extended ...
Dugald Stewart. The notions we annex to the words , matter , and mind , as is well remarked by Dr. Reid , * are merely relative . If I am asked what I mean by matter ? I can only explain myself by saying , it is that which is extended ...
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... words -forgetting , that matter as well as mind is known to us by its qualities and attributes alone , and that we are totally ignorant of the effence of either . † * See Note [ A ] at the end of the volume . + Some Metaphysicians , who ...
... words -forgetting , that matter as well as mind is known to us by its qualities and attributes alone , and that we are totally ignorant of the effence of either . † * See Note [ A ] at the end of the volume . + Some Metaphysicians , who ...
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... words , every fucceeding inquirer finds himself , at the commencement of his philofophical pursuits , obliged to struggle with the fame disadvantages which had retarded the progress of his predeceffors . If the more important practic ...
... words , every fucceeding inquirer finds himself , at the commencement of his philofophical pursuits , obliged to struggle with the fame disadvantages which had retarded the progress of his predeceffors . If the more important practic ...
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... words ; to the difficulty , in fome cafes , of conceiving the fubjects of our reafon- ing ; and , in others , of discovering , and keeping in view , all the various circumstances upon which our judgment ought to proceed ; and above all ...
... words ; to the difficulty , in fome cafes , of conceiving the fubjects of our reafon- ing ; and , in others , of discovering , and keeping in view , all the various circumstances upon which our judgment ought to proceed ; and above all ...
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... word cause is ufed , both by philofophers and the vulgar , in two fenfes , which are widely different.- When it is faid , that every change in nature indi- cates the operation of a caufe , the word caufe expreff . es fomething which is ...
... word cause is ufed , both by philofophers and the vulgar , in two fenfes , which are widely different.- When it is faid , that every change in nature indi- cates the operation of a caufe , the word caufe expreff . es fomething which is ...
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Page 117 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Page 475 - But going over the theory of virtue in one's thoughts, talking well, and drawing fine pictures of it, — this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of it, in him who thus employs himself, that it may harden the mind in a contrary course, and render it gradually more insensible, ie, form a habit of insensibility to all moral considerations.
Page 475 - Volition, it is plain, is an act of the mind knowingly exerting that dominion it takes itself to have over any part of the man, by employing it in, or withholding it from any particular action.
Page 471 - ... 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 425 - 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.
Page 261 - 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 425 - Where shaggy forms o'er ice-built mountains roam, The Muse has broke the twilight gloom To cheer the shivering native's dull abode. And oft, beneath the odorous 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.
Page 71 - 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 464 - Habits, especially such as are begun very early, come at last to produce actions in us which often escape our observation. How frequently do we in a day cover our eyes with our eye-lids, without perceiving that we are at all in the dark! Men, that by custom have got the use of a by-word, do almost in every sentence pronounce sounds which, though taken notice of by others, they themselves neither hear nor observe. And therefore it is not so strange that our mind should often change the idea of its...
Page 253 - Heavens ! how unlike their Belgic sires of old! Rough, poor, content, ungovernably bold ; War in each breast and freedom on each brow ; How much unlike the sons of Britain now ! Fired at the sound, my genius spreads her wing, And flies where Britain courts the western spring ; Where lawns extend that scorn Arcadian pride, And brighter streams than famed Hydaspes glide.