Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 1. köide,1. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page vi
... greater perfection . Locke claffed all things under three categories ; SUBSTANCES , MODES , and IDEAS . Hume reduced the number to two ; IMPRESSIONS and Ideas . The former of these philofophers admitted of only four predicables , all ...
... greater perfection . Locke claffed all things under three categories ; SUBSTANCES , MODES , and IDEAS . Hume reduced the number to two ; IMPRESSIONS and Ideas . The former of these philofophers admitted of only four predicables , all ...
Page vii
... greater whole ; and to point out their connection with each other , and with that whole , by reference : fo that by a courfe of references from rals to particulars , from premises to conclufions , from cause to effect , and vice versa ...
... greater whole ; and to point out their connection with each other , and with that whole , by reference : fo that by a courfe of references from rals to particulars , from premises to conclufions , from cause to effect , and vice versa ...
Page x
... greater ease and the greater confidence , that we cannot be accused of flattering our own vanity , or publishing our own praises ; for the merit of forming the arrange- ment , as well as of introducing into the Work various branches of ...
... greater ease and the greater confidence , that we cannot be accused of flattering our own vanity , or publishing our own praises ; for the merit of forming the arrange- ment , as well as of introducing into the Work various branches of ...
Page xii
... greater care has been employed to trace the history of each from its first invention , and to apply them all to the arts of life . To accomplish a task fo arduous and fo important , neither labour nor expence has been fpared . Literary ...
... greater care has been employed to trace the history of each from its first invention , and to apply them all to the arts of life . To accomplish a task fo arduous and fo important , neither labour nor expence has been fpared . Literary ...
Page xv
... greater part of what we have published under the titles RELIGION and SOCIETY . The lives of JOHNSON and MARY Queen of Scots , with the articles INSTINCT , LOVE , METAPHYSICS , MIRACLE , the hiftory of Ethics under MORAL PHILOSOPHY ...
... greater part of what we have published under the titles RELIGION and SOCIETY . The lives of JOHNSON and MARY Queen of Scots , with the articles INSTINCT , LOVE , METAPHYSICS , MIRACLE , the hiftory of Ethics under MORAL PHILOSOPHY ...
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