The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: Elements of the philosophy of the human mind ... To which is prefixed introduction and part first of the Outlines of moral philosophy. 18541854 |
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... circumstances it may be remarked , by the way , that the former is far less subject to the restraints of the will than the latter , a change of colour often betraying an emotion when the features are perfectly quiescent . It has been ...
... circumstances it may be remarked , by the way , that the former is far less subject to the restraints of the will than the latter , a change of colour often betraying an emotion when the features are perfectly quiescent . It has been ...
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... circumstance that a likeness sometimes strikes one person , which does not strike another . Nobody fancies a resemblance between two merely material objects which is not acknowledged by all the world ; but it is possible that , in con ...
... circumstance that a likeness sometimes strikes one person , which does not strike another . Nobody fancies a resemblance between two merely material objects which is not acknowledged by all the world ; but it is possible that , in con ...
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... circumstance as a remarkable feature in the countenance of Sir Isaac New- ton . " The very lively and piercing eye ( says Atterbury ) that M. Fontenelle in his Eloge on Newton ascribes to him , did not belong to him , at least not for ...
... circumstance as a remarkable feature in the countenance of Sir Isaac New- ton . " The very lively and piercing eye ( says Atterbury ) that M. Fontenelle in his Eloge on Newton ascribes to him , did not belong to him , at least not for ...
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... circumstances connected with the 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 de- parts ...
... circumstances connected with the 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 de- parts ...
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... circumstance significant of the ease , and indolence , and luxury in which they live . In the extensive monarchies of modern Europe , which comprehend so great a diversity of pursuits and professions , there is a corresponding diversity ...
... circumstance significant of the ease , and indolence , and luxury in which they live . In the extensive monarchies of modern Europe , which comprehend so great a diversity of pursuits and professions , there is a corresponding diversity ...
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Page 97 - The Sanscrit 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 246 - 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 be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores.
Page 44 - O, how oft shall he On faith and changed gods complain, and seas Rough with black winds, and storms Unwonted shall admire ! Who now enjoys thee credulous, all gold, Who always vacant, always amiable Hopes thee, of flattering gales Unmindful. Hapless they, To whom thou untried seem'st fair ! Me, in my vow'd Picture, the sacred wall declares to have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern God of sea.
Page 225 - 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 39 - ... the known principles of human nature, how all its various parts might gradually have arisen, the mind is not only to a certain degree satisfied, but a check is given to that indolent philosophy which refers to a miracle whatever appearances, both in the natural and moral worlds, it is unable to explain.
Page 278 - There is not, in my opinion, any thing more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rises above reason, and falls infinitely short of it. It cannot be accounted for by any properties in matter, and at the same time works after so odd a manner, that one cannot think it the faculty of an intellectual being. For my own part, I look upon it as upon the principle of gravitation in bodies, which is not to be explained by any known qualities inherent in the bodies themselves, nor...
Page 246 - ... 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 be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find dif-ferences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores: if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases:...
Page 142 - ... voice, look, mien, and motion, instantly into another company. I have heard him make long harangues, and form various arguments, even in the manner of thinking of an eminent pleader at the bar, with every the least article and singularity of his utterance so perfectly imitated, that he was the very alter ipse, scarce to be distinguished from his original.
Page 196 - The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
Page 48 - Nee non et illud nimiae superstitionis, uti quaeque sint tempore, ea facere etiam ordine priora, non quin frequenter sit hoc melius, sed quia interim plus valent ante gesta ideoque levioribus superponenda sunt.