The Works of Dugald Stewart: Elements of the philosophy of the human mind (cont'd) Outlines of moral philosophyHilliard and Brown, 1829 |
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... lead color ; and in numberless other cases of the same description , - indeed , in every case in which a color occurs to us , which has no appropriate or specific name . Agreeably to this idea , Dr. Wallis long ago observed ...
... lead color ; and in numberless other cases of the same description , - indeed , in every case in which a color occurs to us , which has no appropriate or specific name . Agreeably to this idea , Dr. Wallis long ago observed ...
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... lead them to exert their ingenuity in simplifying the study as much as possible , by whatever shifts the language would afford . Hence , the gradual substitution , in the languages of modern Europe , of prepositions instead of ...
... lead them to exert their ingenuity in simplifying the study as much as possible , by whatever shifts the language would afford . Hence , the gradual substitution , in the languages of modern Europe , of prepositions instead of ...
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... leads them to similar pursuits . " Cum remotæ gentium origines historiam transcendant , linguæ nobis præstant veterum monumentorum vicem . Et vetustissima linguarum vestigia supersunt in nomi- nibus fluviorum atque sylvarum , quæ ...
... leads them to similar pursuits . " Cum remotæ gentium origines historiam transcendant , linguæ nobis præstant veterum monumentorum vicem . Et vetustissima linguarum vestigia supersunt in nomi- nibus fluviorum atque sylvarum , quæ ...
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... leads to any solid conclusion ; it rarely carries with it any internal power of conviction from a resemblance of sounds or similarity of letters , yet , often where it is wholly unassisted by those ad- vantages , it may be indisputably ...
... leads to any solid conclusion ; it rarely carries with it any internal power of conviction from a resemblance of sounds or similarity of letters , yet , often where it is wholly unassisted by those ad- vantages , it may be indisputably ...
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... lead to a more certain acquaintance with the early history of man . " * Nearly twenty years have elapsed since this publica- tion of Sir Laurence Parsons , during which time I do not hear that any progress has been made in those in ...
... lead to a more certain acquaintance with the early history of man . " * Nearly twenty years have elapsed since this publica- tion of Sir Laurence Parsons , during which time I do not hear that any progress has been made in those in ...
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Page 90 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 120 - When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm...
Page 266 - Element that appeared to her so dangerous and destructive. As the different Principle which acted in these different Animals cannot be termed Reason, so when we call it Instinct, we mean something we have no Knowledge of. To me...
Page 235 - nay; there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies : like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises ; bowling is good for the stone and reins, shooting for the lungs and breast, gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head and the like ; .so if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit bo called away never so little, he must begin again ; if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences,...
Page 52 - ... it retains the characters drawn on it like marble, in others like free-stone, and in others little better than sand, I shall not here inquire: though it may seem probable that the constitution of the body does sometimes influence the memory; since we oftentimes find a disease quite strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever in a few days calcine all those images to dust and confusion, which seemed to be as lasting as if graved in marble.
Page 215 - So spake the Cherub : and his grave rebuke, Severe in youthful beauty, added grace Invincible : Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely ; saw, and pined His loss ; but chiefly to find here observed His lustre visibly impair'd ; yet seem'd Undaunted. If I must contend...
Page 229 - In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, and frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar — if hungry, dry, cold, wet or sick...
Page 45 - In verbis etiam tenuis cautusque serendis, Dixeris egregie notum si callida verbum Reddiderit junctura novum. Si forte necesse est Indiciis monstrare recentibus abdita rerum, Fingere cinctutis non exaudita Cethegis 50 Continget, dabiturque licentia sumpta pudenter ; Et nova fictaque nuper habebunt verba fidem si Qraeco fonte cadent, parce detorta.
Page 226 - I cannot help remarking, that sickness, which often destroys both wit and wisdom, yet seldom has power to remove that talent which we call Humour.
Page 258 - ... of material and labour. This is one of those problems belonging to the higher parts of mathematics, which are called problems of maxima and minima. It has been resolved by some mathematicians, particularly by the ingenious Mr. Maclaurin, by a fluxionary calculation, which is to be found in the Transactions of the Royal Society of London.