Essays, Selected from Contributions to the Edinburgh Review: Supplementary volLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855 |
Fra bogen
Resultater 1-5 af 50
Side 6
... readers straight- way imitate with the affectation too customary in other cases - one of the questionable traits of genius , and imagine that , because a philosopher may profitably lie long in bed , all one has to do is to lie very long ...
... readers straight- way imitate with the affectation too customary in other cases - one of the questionable traits of genius , and imagine that , because a philosopher may profitably lie long in bed , all one has to do is to lie very long ...
Side 7
... reader : - ' I was nurtured to letters from my childhood ; and , as I was led to believe that by their means we might acquire a clear and certain knowledge of all that is useful in life , I had an extreme desire to attain proficiency ...
... reader : - ' I was nurtured to letters from my childhood ; and , as I was led to believe that by their means we might acquire a clear and certain knowledge of all that is useful in life , I had an extreme desire to attain proficiency ...
Side 12
... reader may see in how concise a manner he disposes of some of the greatest mysteries of philosophy in one single letter . ( Part I. p . 100. ) Responsio ad quatuor quæstiones . 1. De causâ caloris in animalibus . 2. De causâ febris ...
... reader may see in how concise a manner he disposes of some of the greatest mysteries of philosophy in one single letter . ( Part I. p . 100. ) Responsio ad quatuor quæstiones . 1. De causâ caloris in animalibus . 2. De causâ febris ...
Side 20
Henry Rogers. care not to dwell on it . In Hallam * , the reader will find a characteristically calm and equitable ... readers of Descartes , however , will agree in this last estimate of his cha- racter , or doubt that that great ethical ...
Henry Rogers. care not to dwell on it . In Hallam * , the reader will find a characteristically calm and equitable ... readers of Descartes , however , will agree in this last estimate of his cha- racter , or doubt that that great ethical ...
Side 21
... reader sees them as at the bottom of a clear stream . However abstract the subject , there is none of that haze and vagueness which we find in so many metaphysicians , especially of modern date ; and which continually compel the reader ...
... reader sees them as at the bottom of a clear stream . However abstract the subject , there is none of that haze and vagueness which we find in so many metaphysicians , especially of modern date ; and which continually compel the reader ...
Almindelige termer og sætninger
admit affirmed appears argument believe body Book called cause certainly Church complete condition consistent Council course Cousin criticism derived Descartes distinct doubt Edition effect elements English equally errors especially Essay existence experience expression external fact faculties feel French give History human idea Illustrations infallibility infinite influence John judgment knowledge language Latin laws least lectures less letters limits Locke Locke's Lord matter meaning mind moral nature necessary never notion numerous objects observation opinions original passages perhaps period philosophy Pope possible Post Practical present principles probably Protestants question reader reason refer relation remarks result Roman Rome Second seems sensation sense similar speaks style supposed sure theory thing thought tion translation true truth universal vols whole writers
Populære passager
Side 58 - He who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? You, Mr.
Side 17 - Encyclopaedia of Geography ; comprising a complete Description of the Earth : Exhibiting its Relation to the Heavenly Bodies, its Physical Structure, the Natural History of each Country, and the Industry, Commerce, Political Institutions, and Civil and Social State of All Nations. Second Edition ; with 82 Maps, and upwards of 1,000 other Woodcuts. 8vo. price 60s. Neale.
Side 277 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and in'tense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Side 7 - The Englishman's Greek Concordance of the New Testament : Being an Attempt at a Verbal Connexion between the Greek and the English Texts ; including a Concordance to the Proper Names, with Indexes, GreekEnglish and English-Greek. New Edition, with a new Index. Royal 8vo. price 42s. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance...
Side 13 - Loudon's Encyclopaedia of Agriculture: comprising the Laying-out, Improvement, and Management of Landed Property, and the Cultivation and Economy of the Productions of Agriculture. With 1,100 Woodcuts. 8vo. 31s. 6d. Loudon's Encyclopedia of Gardening : comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, and Landscape Gardening.
Side 20 - Readings for a Month preparatory to Confirmation : Compiled from the Works of Writers of the Early and of the English Church. Fcp.
Side 14 - A General Dictionary of Geography, Descriptive, Physical, Statistical, and Historical ; forming a complete Gazetteer of the World. By A. KEITH JOHNSTON, FRSE 8vo. 31s. 6d. M'Culloch's Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of the various Countries, Places, and principal Natural Objects in the World.
Side 295 - Catholic England has been restored to its orbit in the ecclesiastical firmament, from which its light had long vanished, and begins now anew its course of regularly adjusted action round the centre of unity, the source of jurisdiction, of light and of vigour.
Side 93 - I shall not at present meddle with the physical consideration of the mind, or trouble myself to examine wherein its essence consists, or by what motions of our spirits, or alterations of our bodies, we come to have any sensation by our organs, or any ideas in our understandings; and whether those ideas do, in their formation, any or all of them, depend on matter or no.
Side 19 - SIR EDWARD SEAWARD'S NARRATIVE OF HIS SHIPWRECK, and consequent Discovery of certain Islands in the Caribbean Sea: with a detail of many extraordinary and highly interesting Events in his Life, from 1733 to 1749. as written in his own Diary. Edited by Miss JANE PORTER.