Philosophical EssaysAnthony Finley, 1811 - 580 sider |
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... facts , may be " applied to two different classes of phenomena . The first " are those that can be made the subject of proper experi- " ment , where the substances are actually in our power , " and the judgment and artifice of the ...
... facts , may be " applied to two different classes of phenomena . The first " are those that can be made the subject of proper experi- " ment , where the substances are actually in our power , " and the judgment and artifice of the ...
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... facts can be increased , by any new method of descri- " bing them . Facts that we are unable to modify or di- rect , in short , can only be the objects of observation ; and " observation can only inform us that they exist , and that ...
... facts can be increased , by any new method of descri- " bing them . Facts that we are unable to modify or di- rect , in short , can only be the objects of observation ; and " observation can only inform us that they exist , and that ...
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... with those of the ancient schools . The astronomical cycles handed down to us from the most remote antiquity ; the immense treasure of facts with respect to natural history , preserved 28 [ Chap . II . PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION .
... with those of the ancient schools . The astronomical cycles handed down to us from the most remote antiquity ; the immense treasure of facts with respect to natural history , preserved 28 [ Chap . II . PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION .
Side 29
Dugald Stewart. treasure of facts with respect to natural history , preserved in the works of Aristotle and of Pliny ; and the singularly accurate histories of the phenomena of disease , which some of the Greek physicians are allowed to ...
Dugald Stewart. treasure of facts with respect to natural history , preserved in the works of Aristotle and of Pliny ; and the singularly accurate histories of the phenomena of disease , which some of the Greek physicians are allowed to ...
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... fact which demonstrates the essential aid which man has derived , in asserting his dominion over this lower world , from a branch of science which seems , at first view , fitted only to gratify a specu lative curiosity ; and which , in ...
... fact which demonstrates the essential aid which man has derived , in asserting his dominion over this lower world , from a branch of science which seems , at first view , fitted only to gratify a specu lative curiosity ; and which , in ...
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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.