Philosophical and Literary Essays, 1. köideT. Cadell, London, and W. Creech, Edinburgh., 1792 - 704 pages |
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Page iii
... objections that you had urged against my speculations . The difference of opinion between us , has , I think , been chiefly on certain points , which , from the nature of my inquiries , I have had occafion to examine very mi- nutely ...
... objections that you had urged against my speculations . The difference of opinion between us , has , I think , been chiefly on certain points , which , from the nature of my inquiries , I have had occafion to examine very mi- nutely ...
Page xxv
... objection to its use : on the contrary , fhould be rather a recommen- dation of it . We have many instances , more important in themselves , and more nearly akin to the fubject in question , than making an egg ftand on its end , or ...
... objection to its use : on the contrary , fhould be rather a recommen- dation of it . We have many instances , more important in themselves , and more nearly akin to the fubject in question , than making an egg ftand on its end , or ...
Page clix
... objections in writing , I should confider them with the strictest attention ; and that if I found any of them valid , or even fo puzzling , or of fuch a nature , that I could not easily an- fwer them , fo as to convert them into a fort ...
... objections in writing , I should confider them with the strictest attention ; and that if I found any of them valid , or even fo puzzling , or of fuch a nature , that I could not easily an- fwer them , fo as to convert them into a fort ...
Page clx
... objections but such as they could openly avow , and allow me to make that use of . In confequence of this offer on my part , many objections and anfwers to my Effay , were propofed to me ; fome of them of a very wonderful kind indeed ...
... objections but such as they could openly avow , and allow me to make that use of . In confequence of this offer on my part , many objections and anfwers to my Effay , were propofed to me ; fome of them of a very wonderful kind indeed ...
Page clxi
... objections open- ly , by allowing me to publifh them with his name fubjoined to them ; and none but one of them would allow me to pub- lifh his argument even without his name ; for this offer I made to them all at laft , as I was truly ...
... objections open- ly , by allowing me to publifh them with his name fubjoined to them ; and none but one of them would allow me to pub- lifh his argument even without his name ; for this offer I made to them all at laft , as I was truly ...
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Page cciv - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 66 - ... physical necessity. The same experienced union has the same effect on the mind, whether the united objects be motives, volition, and actions; or figure and motion. We may change the names of things; but their nature and their operation on the understanding never change.
Page 67 - In short, this experimental inference and reasoning concerning the .actions of others enters so much into human life, that no man, while awake, is ever a moment without employing it. Have we not reason, therefore, to affirm that all mankind have always agreed in the doctrine of necessity, according to the foregoing definition and explication of it ? Nor have philosophers ever entertained a different opinion from the people in this particular.
Page 99 - That properly is quantity which is measured by its own kind ; or which of its own nature is capable of being doubled or tripled, without taking in any quantity of a different kind as a measure of it. Improper quantity is that which cannot be...
Page 19 - ... the contrary opinion. The matter, I think, may be accounted for after the following manner. If we examine the operations of body, and the production of effects from their causes, we shall find, that all our. faculties can never carry us farther in our knowledge of this relation, than barely to observe, that particular objects are constantly conjoined together, and that the mind is carried, by a customary transition, from the appearance of one to the belief of the other. But though this...
Page 65 - A prisoner who has neither money nor interest, discovers the impossibility of his escape, as well when he considers the obstinacy of the gaoler, as the walls and bars with which he is surrounded; and, in all attempts for his freedom, chooses rather to work upon the stone and iron of the one, than upon the inflexible nature of the other.
Page 19 - When again they turn their reflections towards the operations of their own minds, and feel no such connexion of the motive and the action ; they are thence apt to suppose, that there is a difference between the effects which result from material force, and those which arise from thought and intelligence.
Page 64 - And with what pretence could we employ our criticism upon any poet or polite author, if we could not pronounce the conduct and sentiments of his actors either natural or unnatural to such characters, and in such circumstances?
Page ccix - It is to this day problematical, whether all the phenomena of the material system be produced by the immediate operation of the First Cause, according to the laws 'which his wisdom determined, or whether subordinate causes are employed by him in the operations of nature ; and, if they be, what their nature, their number, and their different offices...
Page 64 - Where would be the foundation of morals, if particular characters had no certain or determinate power to produce particular sentiments, and if these sentiments had no constant operation on actions...