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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... sufficiently obvious . It is to the use of ar- tificial signs , ( as was formerly shown , † ) that we are in- debted for all our general conclusions ; and without it our knowledge would have been entirely limited to in- See Preface to ...
... sufficiently obvious . It is to the use of ar- tificial signs , ( as was formerly shown , † ) that we are in- debted for all our general conclusions ; and without it our knowledge would have been entirely limited to in- See Preface to ...
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... sufficient for my present purpose to mention one or two of these . I shall have occasion to resume the same argument , at greater length , in treating of Imitation . 1. A child is able at a very early period to under- stand the meaning ...
... sufficient for my present purpose to mention one or two of these . I shall have occasion to resume the same argument , at greater length , in treating of Imitation . 1. A child is able at a very early period to under- stand the meaning ...
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... sufficient , both for the illustration and proof of this remark . When a variety of ideas are passing rapidly through the mind , the eyes are constantly in motion ; for every time our thoughts change from one object to another , there ...
... sufficient , both for the illustration and proof of this remark . When a variety of ideas are passing rapidly through the mind , the eyes are constantly in motion ; for every time our thoughts change from one object to another , there ...
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... sufficient evidence , that the practice , of which we have been speaking , was adopted in his days , at least in the case of one finger , by the men of fashion at Paris . " Mais au moins , dites moi , Madame , par quel sort , Votre ...
... sufficient evidence , that the practice , of which we have been speaking , was adopted in his days , at least in the case of one finger , by the men of fashion at Paris . " Mais au moins , dites moi , Madame , par quel sort , Votre ...
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... sufficiently illustrate the scope of this theory . Example .- " I wish you to believe THAT I would not wilfully hurt a fly . " Resolution.— " I would not wilfully hurt a fly , I wish you to believe THAT " ( assertion . ) Example ...
... sufficiently illustrate the scope of this theory . Example .- " I wish you to believe THAT I would not wilfully hurt a fly . " Resolution.— " I would not wilfully hurt a fly , I wish you to believe THAT " ( assertion . ) Example ...
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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.