Essays on Philosophical SubjectsT. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, 1795 - 244 páginas |
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... animals , and at every thing , in fhort , with which we have before been either little or not at all acquainted ; and we still wonder , though forewarned of what we are to fee . We are surprised at those things which we have seen often ...
... animals , and at every thing , in fhort , with which we have before been either little or not at all acquainted ; and we still wonder , though forewarned of what we are to fee . We are surprised at those things which we have seen often ...
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... Animal ; and that these again , along with those which want that power , are arranged under the ftill more general word Substance : and this is the origin of those affortments of ob- jects and ideas which in the schools are called ...
... Animal ; and that these again , along with those which want that power , are arranged under the ftill more general word Substance : and this is the origin of those affortments of ob- jects and ideas which in the schools are called ...
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... animal , lofes thofe animal motions which were natural to the whole . The branch , which is cut off from the trunk , lofes that vegetative mo- tion which is natural to the whole tree . Even the metals , minerals , and ftones , which are ...
... animal , lofes thofe animal motions which were natural to the whole . The branch , which is cut off from the trunk , lofes that vegetative mo- tion which is natural to the whole tree . Even the metals , minerals , and ftones , which are ...
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... animals of the fame kind , have exactly the fame figure , nor is that of any one of them perfectly regular . It was in vain , therefore , that astrono- mers laboured to find that perfect conftancy and regularity , in the motions of the ...
... animals of the fame kind , have exactly the fame figure , nor is that of any one of them perfectly regular . It was in vain , therefore , that astrono- mers laboured to find that perfect conftancy and regularity , in the motions of the ...
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... , minerals , plants , animals , which are found in the Waters , and near the fur- face of the Earth , are still more intricately diverfified ; and if we regard regard the different manners of their production , their mutual.
... , minerals , plants , animals , which are found in the Waters , and near the fur- face of the Earth , are still more intricately diverfified ; and if we regard regard the different manners of their production , their mutual.
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Página lxxii - The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit of a remedy. But the mean rapacity, the monopolizing spirit of merchants and manufacturers, who neither are, nor ought to be, the rulers of mankind...
Página 181 - ... a glass of broken jelly where a great variety of surfaces so differently refract the light, that the several distinct pencils of rays cannot be collected by the eye into their proper foci ; wherefore the shape of an object in such a case, cannot be at all discerned, though the colour may...
Página xlvii - Buccleugh under the author's care, and would make it worth his while to accept of that charge. As soon as I heard this, I called on him twice, with a view of talking with him about the matter, and of convincing him of the propriety of sending that young nobleman to...
Página xxiii - When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer.
Página xxxvi - may appear very plausible, and be, for a long time, very generally received in the world, and yet have no foundation in nature, nor any sort of resemblance to the truth. But it is otherwise with systems of Moral Philosophy.
Página lxxiii - He will accommodate, as well as he can, his public arrangements to the confirmed habits and prejudices of the people, and will remedy, as well as he can, the inconveniencies which may flow from the want of those regulations which the people are averse to submit to.
Página 13 - There is no break, no stop, no gap, no interval. The ideas excited by so coherent a chain of things seem, as it were, to float through the mind of their own accord, without obliging it to exert itself, or to make any effort in order to pass from one of them to another.
Página 4 - The violent and sudden change produced upon the mind, when an emotion of any kind is brought suddenly upon it, constitutes the whole nature of Surprise.
Página xliii - Languages, which exhibits a very beautiful specimen of theoretical history, applied to a subject equally curious and difficult. The analogy between the train of thinking from which it has taken its...
Página lxxvii - The Political Discourses of Mr. Hume were evidently of greater use to Mr. Smith, than any other book that had appeared prior to his lectures.