Essays, Selected from Contributions to the Edinburgh Review: Supplementary volLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855 |
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... universal plenum ; that the seat of the soul is unquestionably the conarion , or pineal gland , for which his reasons are most exquisite ; that animals are destitute of all intelligence , and mere automata ; that , had God so pleased ...
... universal plenum ; that the seat of the soul is unquestionably the conarion , or pineal gland , for which his reasons are most exquisite ; that animals are destitute of all intelligence , and mere automata ; that , had God so pleased ...
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... universal , and the most eloquent of philo- sophers . ' As Hallam has remarked , it is a formidable list of plagiarisms with which Leibnitz has taxed Descartes . The above critic has cited a part of the passage . The whole may be found ...
... universal , and the most eloquent of philo- sophers . ' As Hallam has remarked , it is a formidable list of plagiarisms with which Leibnitz has taxed Descartes . The above critic has cited a part of the passage . The whole may be found ...
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Henry Rogers. lessons of experience , where that experience has been quite as universal and uniform . We have always seen a cloudless sky blue , and the grass green ; our experience of this has been equally early and unvary- ing with ...
Henry Rogers. lessons of experience , where that experience has been quite as universal and uniform . We have always seen a cloudless sky blue , and the grass green ; our experience of this has been equally early and unvary- ing with ...
Side 47
... universal experience which they do not from others equally universal ; that is , the laws of thought are such that we are necessarily led to be- lieve that such and such things could not have been flexible , the cord perfectly flexible ...
... universal experience which they do not from others equally universal ; that is , the laws of thought are such that we are necessarily led to be- lieve that such and such things could not have been flexible , the cord perfectly flexible ...
Side 48
... universal presumption and inconsistency of the human race , not one of whom but would stake his life that there is no spot in the universe where two straight lines would enclose a space ; and yet , though experience has confirmed it no ...
... universal presumption and inconsistency of the human race , not one of whom but would stake his life that there is no spot in the universe where two straight lines would enclose a space ; and yet , though experience has confirmed it no ...
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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.
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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.
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