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 22
... fallacies of the fceptical philofophy may be detected by every person of common fense , even tho ' he fhould not poffefs acuteness or metaphy- fical knowledge fufficient to qualify him for a logical confutation of them . THIRDLY , I ...
... fallacies of the fceptical philofophy may be detected by every person of common fense , even tho ' he fhould not poffefs acuteness or metaphy- fical knowledge fufficient to qualify him for a logical confutation of them . THIRDLY , I ...
Strana 23
... fallacious , is a character which no perfon who is not utter- ly abandoned would chufe to bear , it is a character from which we expect nothing but levity and inconfiftence . Truth feems to be confidered by all mankind as fomething fix ...
... fallacious , is a character which no perfon who is not utter- ly abandoned would chufe to bear , it is a character from which we expect nothing but levity and inconfiftence . Truth feems to be confidered by all mankind as fomething fix ...
Strana 26
... fallacious , but fuch as I fhould approve if I were perfectly acquainted with every thing in the univerfe , and fuch as I may approve , and admit of , and regu- late my conduct by , without danger of any inconvenience . It is not eafy ...
... fallacious , but fuch as I fhould approve if I were perfectly acquainted with every thing in the univerfe , and fuch as I may approve , and admit of , and regu- late my conduct by , without danger of any inconvenience . It is not eafy ...
Strana 40
... fallacious , we fhould think ourfelves capable of detecting the cheat . Common fenfe tells me , that the ground on which I stand is hard , material , and folid , and has a real , feparate , independent existence . BERKE- LEY and HUME ...
... fallacious , we fhould think ourfelves capable of detecting the cheat . Common fenfe tells me , that the ground on which I stand is hard , material , and folid , and has a real , feparate , independent existence . BERKE- LEY and HUME ...
Strana 49
... fallacious , it is the Deity who makes them fo ; and therefore we can never rectify , or even detect , the fallacy . But we cannot even fuppofe them fallacious , with- out violating our nature ; nor , if we ac- knowledge a God , without ...
... fallacious , it is the Deity who makes them fo ; and therefore we can never rectify , or even detect , the fallacy . But we cannot even fuppofe them fallacious , with- out violating our nature ; nor , if we ac- knowledge a God , without ...
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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 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...
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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?