The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Volume 4T. Constable and Company [etc. ], 1854 |
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... possessed of them . They are soonest learned in childhood , inso- much that we must suppose human nature , in its lowest state , competent to the use of them ; and without the intervention of uncommon genius , mankind in a succession of ...
... possessed of them . They are soonest learned in childhood , inso- much that we must suppose human nature , in its lowest state , competent to the use of them ; and without the intervention of uncommon genius , mankind in a succession of ...
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... possessed a great advantage over the modern , in point of conciseness . The words , Dei and Deo , for example , expressed , each of them , what in English must be translated by two words , of God , to God . The difference is still ...
... possessed a great advantage over the modern , in point of conciseness . The words , Dei and Deo , for example , expressed , each of them , what in English must be translated by two words , of God , to God . The difference is still ...
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... possessed over the modern in point of concise- ness , by the difficulty of translating any of the common Latin mottos ( or what the French call devises ) into a modern lan- guage , without destroying completely their spirit and vivacity ...
... possessed over the modern in point of concise- ness , by the difficulty of translating any of the common Latin mottos ( or what the French call devises ) into a modern lan- guage , without destroying completely their spirit and vivacity ...
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... possessed , would enable them to add more usefully to the mass of philological know- ledge , than the almost ... possessing in myself any- thing at all analogous . E they have done , was necessary to prepare the way CHAP . I. — OF ...
... possessed , would enable them to add more usefully to the mass of philological know- ledge , than the almost ... possessing in myself any- thing at all analogous . E they have done , was necessary to prepare the way CHAP . I. — OF ...
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... possessed by few ; and one of the adepts may be readily excused , if he addresses the public on his favourite subject , in a more confident tone than he would have assumed , had the points in question lain more open to general examina ...
... possessed by few ; and one of the adepts may be readily excused , if he addresses the public on his favourite subject , in a more confident tone than he would have assumed , had the points in question lain more open to general examina ...
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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.