Essays: On the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism : on Poetry and Music, as They Affect the Mind : on Laughter, and Ludicrous Composition : on the Utility of Classical Learning, Zväzok 1William Creech, Edinburgh; and for E. & C. Dilly, and T. Cadell, London, 1776 - 555 strán (strany) |
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Strana ix
... Some objections will perhaps be found ob → viated by occafional remarks and amend- ments interfperfed in this Edition . I once intended to have offered a more compleat vindication , and had actually prepared ma- terials for it but ...
... Some objections will perhaps be found ob → viated by occafional remarks and amend- ments interfperfed in this Edition . I once intended to have offered a more compleat vindication , and had actually prepared ma- terials for it but ...
Strana 4
... Some readers may think , that there is but little merit in this declaration ; it being as much for my own credit , as for the intereft of mankind , that I guard against a practice , which is acknowledged to be always unpro- fitable ...
... Some readers may think , that there is but little merit in this declaration ; it being as much for my own credit , as for the intereft of mankind , that I guard against a practice , which is acknowledged to be always unpro- fitable ...
Strana 5
... Some will tell us , that the present age tranfcends all that have gone before it , in politenefs , learning , and good fenfe ; will thank Providence ( or their ftars ) that their lot of life has been caft in fo glorious a period ; and ...
... Some will tell us , that the present age tranfcends all that have gone before it , in politenefs , learning , and good fenfe ; will thank Providence ( or their ftars ) that their lot of life has been caft in fo glorious a period ; and ...
Strana 27
... Some have called the former conviction , and the latter affent . All convictions are equally ftrong : but affent admits of innumerable degrees , from moral certainty , which is the highest degree down- ward , through the feveral stages ...
... Some have called the former conviction , and the latter affent . All convictions are equally ftrong : but affent admits of innumerable degrees , from moral certainty , which is the highest degree down- ward , through the feveral stages ...
Strana 28
... Some philofophers of note † have given the name of Common Senfe We might call the one Reafon and the other Reafon- ing ; but the fimilarity of the terms would frequently oc- cafion both obfcurity in the fenfe , and harshness in the ...
... Some philofophers of note † have given the name of Common Senfe We might call the one Reafon and the other Reafon- ing ; but the fimilarity of the terms would frequently oc- cafion both obfcurity in the fenfe , and harshness in the ...
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Essays: On the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to ..., Zväzok 1 James Beattie Úplné zobrazenie - 1776 |
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Strana 63 - Thou sun, said I, fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Strana 143 - I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when, after three or four hours...
Strana 297 - Knowst thou th' importance of a soul immortal ? Behold this midnight glory : worlds on worlds ! Amazing pomp! redouble this amaze ; Ten thousand add ; add twice ten thousand more; Then weigh the whole; one soul out-weighs them all, And calls th' astonishing magnificence Of unintelligent creation poor.
Strana 426 - I am apt to suspect the negroes, and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites. There never was a civilized nation of any other complexion than white, nor even any individual eminent either in action or speculation.
Strana 63 - Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here? Not of myself, by some great Maker then, In goodness and in power pre-eminent : Tell me, how may I know him, how adore, From whom I have that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know.
Strana 227 - As to the first question, we may observe, that what we call a mind, is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations, and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity.
Strana 244 - Where is the harm of my believing, that if I were to fall down yonder precipice, and break my neck, I should be no more a man of this world? My neck, Sir, may be an idea to you, but to me it is a reality, and an important one too. Where is the harm of my believing, that if, in this severe weather...
Strana 272 - A cause is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it that the idea of the one determines the mind to form the idea of the other, and the impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other.
Strana 33 - Reason, as implying a faculty not marked by any other name, is used by those who are most accurate in distinguishing, to signify that power of the human mind by which we draw inferences, or by which we are convinced, that a relation belongs to two ideas, on account of our having found, that these ideas bear certain relations to other ideas. In a word, it is that faculty which enables us, from relations or ideas that are known, to investigate such as are unknown; and without which we never could proceed...
Strana 64 - What am I? or from whence? - For that I am I know, because I think: but whence I came, Or how this frame of mine began to be, What other being can disclose to me?