The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: Translations of the passages in foreign languages contained in the collected works of Dugald Stewart. With general index. 1860 |
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according action adduced ancient animal appear applied Beauty believe body called cause character common consider constitutes course demonstration desire doctrine doubt effect equal error example existence experience expression fact favour Final follow force give ground habit hand hold human ideas imagination influence interest Italy judgment kind knowledge labour language laws learned least less letter light Locke logic mathematical matter means memory method mind Moral motion names nature necessary noticed objects observed opinion origin particular perfect philosophy physical Political possess present principle produce proper propositions question quoted reason referred regard relation respect sense speak species Stewart suppose taste term theory things thought tion touching true truth understand universe viii virtue Volume whole writings
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79. lappuse - ... a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
79. lappuse - ... for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
78. lappuse - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite : sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession...
302. lappuse - DO not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.
7. lappuse - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it...
8. lappuse - Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence...
130. lappuse - For to say that the hairs of the eye-lids are for a quickset and fence about the sight ; or that the firmness of the skins and hides of living creatures is to defend them from the extremities of heat or cold ; or that the bones are for the columns or beams, whereupon the frames of the bodies of living creatures are built...
130. lappuse - Not because those final causes are not true, and worthy to be inquired, being kept within their own province ; but because their excursions into the limits of physical causes hath bred a vastness and solitude in that track.
114. lappuse - But it is manifest that Plato, in his opinion of ideas, as one that had a wit of elevation situate as upon a cliff, did descry that forms were the true object of knowledge...
130. lappuse - ... and the like, is well inquired and collected in metaphysic ; but in physic they are impertinent. Nay, they are indeed but remoras and hinderances to stay and slug the ship from further sailing; and have brought this to pass, that the search of the physical causes hath been neglected, and passed in silence.
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| Nosaukums | The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: Translations of the passages in foreign languages contained in the collected works of Dugald Stewart. With general index. 1860 Grāmatas The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart 11. sējums. sējums, Sir William Hamilton |
| Autors | Dugald Stewart |
| Redaktors | Sir William Hamilton |
| Izdevējs | T. Constable and Company, 1877 |
| Oriģināls no | Viskonsinas universitāte Medisona |
| Digitalizēta | 8.1.2008 |
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