Philosophical EssaysAnthony Finley, 1811 - 580 sider |
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... question , as one of those which are likely to remain for ever among the arcana of nature ; nor am I afraid of being contradicted by any competent and candid judge , how sanguine soever may be his hopes concerning the progress of future ...
... question , as one of those which are likely to remain for ever among the arcana of nature ; nor am I afraid of being contradicted by any competent and candid judge , how sanguine soever may be his hopes concerning the progress of future ...
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... , to observe , that I object to it merely as an idle waste of labour and ingenuity , on questions to which the human faculties are altogether incompetent ; and not because I consider 6 [ Chap . 1 . PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION .
... , to observe , that I object to it merely as an idle waste of labour and ingenuity , on questions to which the human faculties are altogether incompetent ; and not because I consider 6 [ Chap . 1 . PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION .
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... question , coincide with the general spirit of the Novum Organum , will , I trust , appear from the following remarks ; which will amount much less to a laboured defence of my own opinions , than to a correction of what I conceive to be ...
... question , coincide with the general spirit of the Novum Organum , will , I trust , appear from the following remarks ; which will amount much less to a laboured defence of my own opinions , than to a correction of what I conceive to be ...
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... questions , about which ( as we learn from the same authority ) the inquiries of Natural Philosophers were then employed . After the physical dis- coveries , indeed , which have distinguished the two last centuries , the scepticism of ...
... questions , about which ( as we learn from the same authority ) the inquiries of Natural Philosophers were then employed . After the physical dis- coveries , indeed , which have distinguished the two last centuries , the scepticism of ...
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... questions connected with the theory of our in- ternal frame , I do not scruple to contrast , as an organ of Human Power and of Human Happiness , the Science of Mind , even in its present state of infancy , with the disco- veries which ...
... questions connected with the theory of our in- ternal frame , I do not scruple to contrast , as an organ of Human Power and of Human Happiness , the Science of Mind , even in its present state of infancy , with the disco- veries which ...
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Side 152 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Side 336 - Awake, /Eolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take ; The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres...
Side 373 - The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam: Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal •wood; The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line...
Side 103 - But that all his arguments, though otherwise intended, are in reality merely sceptical, appears from this, that they admit of no answer, and produce no conviction. Their only effect is to cause that momentary amazement and irresolution and confusion which is the result of scepticism.
Side 306 - See what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill...
Side 352 - And like th' old Hebrews many years did stray In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last. The barren wilderness he past, Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land, And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it.
Side 306 - She then thought .of that expression — it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun — which words then seemed to her to be very applicable to Jesus Christ.
Side 80 - Light and colours, heat and cold, extension and figures, in a word the things we see and feel, what are they but so many sensations, notions, ideas or impressions on the sense ; and is it possible to separate, even in thought, any of these from perception ? For my part I might as easily divide a thing from itself.
Side 77 - For methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left to let in external visible resemblances or ideas of things without : [would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there,] and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding of a man in reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them.
Side 71 - Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.