The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, 2. köideT. Constable and Company [etc. ], 1854 |
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... things , and avail our- selves of natural Powers and Agents for accomplishing our purposes . . 6. The knowledge of the Philosopher differs from that [ Hactenus Phænomena cœlorum et maris per vim gravitatis exposui sed causam gravitatis ...
... things , and avail our- selves of natural Powers and Agents for accomplishing our purposes . . 6. The knowledge of the Philosopher differs from that [ Hactenus Phænomena cœlorum et maris per vim gravitatis exposui sed causam gravitatis ...
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... things external , it is neces- sary to attend to the distinct meanings of the words Sensation and Perception . The former expresses merely that change in the state of the mind which is produced by an impression upon an organ of sense ...
... things external , it is neces- sary to attend to the distinct meanings of the words Sensation and Perception . The former expresses merely that change in the state of the mind which is produced by an impression upon an organ of sense ...
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... things external ; being ( as Leibnitz expresses it ) a living mirror of the universe , prepared to bring forward and to exhibit , in their just order and succession , the images corresponding to all the diffe- rent impressions which the ...
... things external ; being ( as Leibnitz expresses it ) a living mirror of the universe , prepared to bring forward and to exhibit , in their just order and succession , the images corresponding to all the diffe- rent impressions which the ...
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... things of nature by human thought and experi- ence , so as to make them answer the designs and uses of mankind . " It may be defined more concisely to be the ad- justment of means to accomplish a de- sired end . According to this idea ...
... things of nature by human thought and experi- ence , so as to make them answer the designs and uses of mankind . " It may be defined more concisely to be the ad- justment of means to accomplish a de- sired end . According to this idea ...
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... thing we can prove to the contrary , it is possible that the unknown substance which has the qualities of extension , figure , and colour , may be the same with the unknown substance which has the attributes of feeling , thinking , and ...
... thing we can prove to the contrary , it is possible that the unknown substance which has the qualities of extension , figure , and colour , may be the same with the unknown substance which has the attributes of feeling , thinking , and ...
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Page 102 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.
Page 453 - ... his chair and bed. A little calendar of small sticks were laid at the head. notched all over with the dismal days and nights he had passed there; he had one of these little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap.
Page 432 - Nor, creeping through the woods, the gelid race Of berries. Oft in humble station dwells Unboastful worth, above fastidious pomp. Witness, thou best Anana, thou the pride Of vegetable life, beyond whate'er The poets imaged in the golden age : Quick let me strip thee of thy tufty coat, Spread thy ambrosial stores, and feast with Jove!
Page 488 - When therefore we quit particulars, the generals that rest are only creatures of our own making, their general nature being nothing but the capacity they are put into by the understanding of signifying or representing many particulars. For the signification they have is nothing but a relation that by the mind of man is added to them.
Page 60 - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Page 94 - I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room; 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...
Page 488 - ... universality belongs not to things themselves, which are all of them particular in their existence, even those words and ideas which in their signification are general.
Page 277 - All that we feel of it begins and ends In the small circle of our foes or friends; To all beside as much an empty shade...
Page 298 - O'er which were shadowy cast Elysian gleams, That play'd in waving lights, from place to place, And shed a roseate smile on Nature's face.