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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... original and of the copy will often be found very strongly contrasted , when the imitation is the most per- fect , and the likeness the most striking imaginable . In- deed , it is upon this contrast that the ludicrous effect of mimicry ...
... original and of the copy will often be found very strongly contrasted , when the imitation is the most per- fect , and the likeness the most striking imaginable . In- deed , it is upon this contrast that the ludicrous effect of mimicry ...
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... original organization of that part of the body . No parent , for example , fails to feel some apprehension about the intellect of a child whose head is uncommonly large , or whose scull departs widely from the common form . In this last ...
... original organization of that part of the body . No parent , for example , fails to feel some apprehension about the intellect of a child whose head is uncommonly large , or whose scull departs widely from the common form . In this last ...
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... original property , are now become so common , that I have heard them criticised as not altogether worthy , from their triteness , of the author of the Wealth of Nations . Referring to Mr. Smith's Discourse for the particulars of his ...
... original property , are now become so common , that I have heard them criticised as not altogether worthy , from their triteness , of the author of the Wealth of Nations . Referring to Mr. Smith's Discourse for the particulars of his ...
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... original and fundamenta ! proposition more steadily in view in the sequel of his theory . As for Dr. Murray's assertion , that " the first words were monosyllabic verbs , " how is it to be reconciled with the fact , that , in most ...
... original and fundamenta ! proposition more steadily in view in the sequel of his theory . As for Dr. Murray's assertion , that " the first words were monosyllabic verbs , " how is it to be reconciled with the fact , that , in most ...
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... original of my last example ( where UT is employed , and not the Latin neuter article QUOD ) will be resolved in the same manner . UT jugulent homines , surgunt de nocte latrones . ' * A letter to John Dunning , Esq . by Mr. Horne ...
... original of my last example ( where UT is employed , and not the Latin neuter article QUOD ) will be resolved in the same manner . UT jugulent homines , surgunt de nocte latrones . ' * A letter to John Dunning , Esq . by Mr. Horne ...
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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.