Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution, in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806Harper & Brothers, 1855 - 391 oldal |
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... experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737 ; -- so that , with all the tendency to destroy , there remains nothing left for destruction : but I would fain ask if there be any one human being , from the days of ...
... experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737 ; -- so that , with all the tendency to destroy , there remains nothing left for destruction : but I would fain ask if there be any one human being , from the days of ...
59. oldal
... experience , and applied it only to the promotion of human happiness , who have disdained paradox and impiety , and coveted no other fame than that which was founded upon the modest investigation of truth , —such men have sprung from ...
... experience , and applied it only to the promotion of human happiness , who have disdained paradox and impiety , and coveted no other fame than that which was founded upon the modest investigation of truth , —such men have sprung from ...
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... experience has led us to refer to a bell as its cause . We smell that something is burning , in the same manner . Burning is an object of sight , and can not be smelt ; but that odor can be smelt which experience has taught us to ...
... experience has led us to refer to a bell as its cause . We smell that something is burning , in the same manner . Burning is an object of sight , and can not be smelt ; but that odor can be smelt which experience has taught us to ...
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... experience has taught him , that this is the appearance of a man - of - war . I have had no experience , and it is to me only a simple sensation . I see only the object ; he sees the thing signified . There are , in the case of vision ...
... experience has taught him , that this is the appearance of a man - of - war . I have had no experience , and it is to me only a simple sensation . I see only the object ; he sees the thing signified . There are , in the case of vision ...
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... experience , the efforts I am compelled to make in order to see at these different dis- tances become themselves the signs of these distances ; and if any person were wounded in these muscles about the eye , so as to disturb his usual ...
... experience , the efforts I am compelled to make in order to see at these different dis- tances become themselves the signs of these distances ; and if any person were wounded in these muscles about the eye , so as to disturb his usual ...
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188. oldal - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
317. oldal - The other shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb, Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
164. oldal - With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
209. oldal - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up : It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?
315. oldal - Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir The hell within him ; for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step, no more than from himself, can fly By change of place.
194. oldal - And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. The master saw the madness rise, His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes; And while he heaven and earth defied, Changed his hand, and checked his pride. He chose a mournful Muse, Soft pity to infuse; He sung Darius...
113. oldal - ... retorting an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a...
21. oldal - I doubt not, but if we could trace them to their sources, we should find, in all languages, the names, which stand for things that fall not under our senses, to have had their first rise from sensible ideas.
219. oldal - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat : if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
117. oldal - Wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors: a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.