| Sir James Prior - 1891 - 648 oldal
...that compose them. Parallels of this sort rather furnish similitudes to illustrate or to adorn, than supply analogies from whence to reason. The objects...same classes of existence. Individuals are physical b ings, subject to laws universal and invariable. The immediate cause acting in these laws may be obscure... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1893 - 224 oldal
...who compose them. Parallels of this sort rather furnish similitudes to illustrate or to adorn, than supply analogies from whence to reason. The objects...calculation. But commonwealths are not physical but 30 moral essences. They are artificial combinations, and, in their proximate efficient cause, the arbitrary... | |
| Thomas Fowler - 1895 - 620 oldal
...who compose them. Parallels of this sort rather furnish similitudes to illustrate or to adorn, than supply analogies from whence to reason. The objects...certain calculation. But commonwealths are not physical ' From what has been already said, it follows that the comparison which is sometimes instituted between... | |
| Elias J. MacEwan - 1898 - 440 oldal
...that compose them. Parallels of this sort rather furnish similitudes to illustrate and adorn, than supply analogies from whence to reason. The objects...general results are subjects of certain calculation. Commonwealths are not physical but moral essences. They are the arbitrary productions of the human... | |
| Elias J. MacEwan - 1898 - 440 oldal
...that compose them. Parallels of this sort rather furnish similitudes to illustrate and adorn, than supply analogies from whence to reason. The objects...laws, universal and invariable. The immediate cause i Great Speeches, 236. acting in these laws may be obscure ; the general results are subjects of certain... | |
| J. Welton - 1910 - 344 oldal
...compose " them. Parallels of this sort rather furnish similitudes to " illustrate or to adorn, than supply analogies from whence " to reason. The objects..." these laws may be obscure : the general results arc subjects " of certain calculation. But commonwealths are not physical "but moral essences. They... | |
| John MacCunn - 1913 - 290 oldal
...organism does not by any means run upon all fours ; the second, that this is so because the ' things forced into an analogy are not found in the same classes of existence ' ; and the third, that the human mind is ' the proximate efficient cause ' in the construction and... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1854 - 516 oldal
..." Parallels of this sort," said Burke, "rather furnish similitudes to illustrate or to adorn, than supply analogies from whence to reason. The objects...analogy are not found in the same classes of existence Commonwealths are not physical but moral essences." And though it is right that nations, as well as... | |
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