The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Volume 4T. Constable and Company [etc. ], 1854 |
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... Natural Language , without which ( as Dr. Reid has well observed ) the formation of an artificial language would ... natural signs . These consist in certain expressions of the countenance , certain gestures of the body , and certain ...
... Natural Language , without which ( as Dr. Reid has well observed ) the formation of an artificial language would ... natural signs . These consist in certain expressions of the countenance , certain gestures of the body , and certain ...
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... natural signs than in many other phenomena which infants exhibit ; nor perhaps so wonderful as that instinctive terror with which nature has certainly endowed some of the brutes for the destined enemies of their respective tribes . It ...
... natural signs than in many other phenomena which infants exhibit ; nor perhaps so wonderful as that instinctive terror with which nature has certainly endowed some of the brutes for the destined enemies of their respective tribes . It ...
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... natural language are felt ; and men find it necessary to invent artificial signs , of which the meaning is fixed by mutual agreement . In propor- tion as artificial language improves , the language of nature declines , insomuch that ...
... natural language are felt ; and men find it necessary to invent artificial signs , of which the meaning is fixed by mutual agreement . In propor- tion as artificial language improves , the language of nature declines , insomuch that ...
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... natural signs , inasmuch as their connexion with the things signified is the effect of the natural constitution of the human frame , and as they must , therefore , have exhibited the same appearance in all ages and nations ; but which ...
... natural signs , inasmuch as their connexion with the things signified is the effect of the natural constitution of the human frame , and as they must , therefore , have exhibited the same appearance in all ages and nations ; but which ...
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... natural , inasmuch as they have been found to present them- selves to the common sense of mankind in a great variety of ... nature , or reason , or fancy ; although perhaps we may be unable to give a satisfactory account of its origin ...
... natural , inasmuch as they have been found to present them- selves to the common sense of mankind in a great variety of ... nature , or reason , or fancy ; although perhaps we may be unable to give a satisfactory account of its origin ...
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Page 96 - 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...
Page 57 - Thus the ideas, as well as children of our youth, often die" before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching ; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away.
Page 129 - 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 278 - Paper, it seems the immediate Direction of Providence, and such an Operation of the supreme Being, as that which determines all the Portions of Matter to their proper Centres.
Page 246 - 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 97 - 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 - ... 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 : 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'...
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 310 - ... one of the most beautiful, and, at the same time, one of the most important theories of modern philosophy.
Page 39 - In examining the history of mankind, as well as in examining the phenomena of the material world, when we cannot trace the process by which an event has been produced, it is often of importance to be able to show how it may have been produced by natural causes.