Prodromus, Or, An Inquiry Into the First Principles of Reasoning: Including an Analysis of the Human MindW.H. Allen & Company, 1839 - 263 pages |
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Abstract Ideas Abstract Relations Abstract Terms Abstract Words absurdity action admit Agent Algazel Arabic language Aristotle assertion aware body CÆSURA called Cause and Effect causer Cicero conceived conception Concrete consequently considered Correlations definite delusive derived distinction effort equally error evident express fact fallacy feel force foregoing French language Greek guage habit Hindu human Hume imagine India inference instance intellect Latin likewise mankind matter means merely metaphysical metaphysicians mind Motive Movement mysterious nature of language necessary connexion never nominalists notion noun object observations original ourselves particular Peculiarity perhaps philosophers phrases Power Principle produced Property Pyrrho question Quiddity reader Realists reality reason reference reflection Rela Relation of Cause remarks represent result retina Roscellinus sality Sanscrit sense sentence sophism sounds Space speak stand substance suppose talk tence termina thing thought tion truth understanding universal verb whole word Cause word implying Zoroaster
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Page 2 - The consideration, then, of ideas and words as the great instruments of knowledge, makes no despicable part of their contemplation who would take a view of human knowledge in the whole extent of it. And perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.
Page 111 - Suitably to this experience, therefore, we may define a cause to be an object, followed by another, and where all the objects similar to the first are followed by objects similar to the second.
Page 93 - Some there are who make a distinction betwixt primary and secondary qualities. By the former they mean extension, figure, motion, rest, solidity or impenetrability, and number; by the latter they denote all other sensible qualities, as colours, sounds, tastes, and so forth.
Page 161 - On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him...
Page 112 - ... that circumstance in the cause, which gives it a connexion with its effect. We have no idea of this connexion, nor even any distinct notion what it is we desire to know, when we endeavour at a conception of it.
Page 262 - No wonder, such celestial charms For nine long years have set the world in arms! What winning graces! what majestic mien! She moves a Goddess, and she looks a Queen. Yet hence, oh Heav'n! convey that fatal face, And from destruction save the Trojan race.
Page 41 - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought ; And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 43 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy, The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness...
Page 42 - Or spirit of the nethermost abyss Might in that noise reside, of whom to ask Which way the nearest coast of darkness lies Bordering on light ; when straight behold the throne Of Chaos, and his dark pavilion spread Wide on the wasteful deep; with him enthroned Sat sable-vested Night, eldest of things, The consort of his reign, and by them stood Orcus and Ades, and the dreaded name Of Demogorgon ; Rumour next, and Chance, And Tumult, and Confusion, all embroiled, And Discord with a thousand various...