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... Conduct of Affairs , in consequence of a rash Application of general Principles , 159 165 182 193 . 198 SECT . 7. Continuation of the same Subject . - Differences in the Intellectual Characters of Individuals , arising from their ...
... Conduct of Affairs , in consequence of a rash Application of general Principles , 159 165 182 193 . 198 SECT . 7. Continuation of the same Subject . - Differences in the Intellectual Characters of Individuals , arising from their ...
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... conduct in life , pre- suppose such an established order in the succession of events , as enables us to form conjectures concerning the future , from the observation of the past . 2. In the phenomena of the material world , and in many ...
... conduct in life , pre- suppose such an established order in the succession of events , as enables us to form conjectures concerning the future , from the observation of the past . 2. In the phenomena of the material world , and in many ...
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... conduct . The more knowledge of this kind we acquire , the better can we accommo- date our plans to the established order of things , and avail our- selves of natural Powers and Agents for accomplishing our purposes . . 6. The knowledge ...
... conduct . The more knowledge of this kind we acquire , the better can we accommo- date our plans to the established order of things , and avail our- selves of natural Powers and Agents for accomplishing our purposes . . 6. The knowledge ...
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... conducted . 7. The knowledge which is acquired of the course of Nature by mere observation , is extremely limited , and extends only to cases in which the uniformity of the observed phenomena is apparent to our senses . This happens ...
... conducted . 7. The knowledge which is acquired of the course of Nature by mere observation , is extremely limited , and extends only to cases in which the uniformity of the observed phenomena is apparent to our senses . This happens ...
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... conduct in life , in so far as these rules may be discovered by the unassisted light of nature ; that is , by an examination of the principles of the human constitu- tion , and of the circumstances in which man is placed . 2. In ...
... conduct in life , in so far as these rules may be discovered by the unassisted light of nature ; that is , by an examination of the principles of the human constitu- tion , and of the circumstances in which man is placed . 2. In ...
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Seite 102 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.
Seite 453 - ... his chair and bed. A little calendar of small sticks were laid at the head. notched all over with the dismal days and nights he had passed there; he had one of these little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap.
Seite 432 - Nor, creeping through the woods, the gelid race Of berries. Oft in humble station dwells Unboastful worth, above fastidious pomp. Witness, thou best Anana, thou the pride Of vegetable life, beyond whate'er The poets imaged in the golden age : Quick let me strip thee of thy tufty coat, Spread thy ambrosial stores, and feast with Jove!
Seite 488 - When therefore we quit particulars, the generals that rest are only creatures of our own making, their general nature being nothing but the capacity they are put into by the understanding of signifying or representing many particulars. For the signification they have is nothing but a relation that by the mind of man is added to them.
Seite 60 - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Seite 94 - I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room; for methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without...
Seite 488 - ... universality belongs not to things themselves, which are all of them particular in their existence, even those words and ideas which in their signification are general.
Seite 277 - All that we feel of it begins and ends In the small circle of our foes or friends; To all beside as much an empty shade...
Seite 298 - O'er which were shadowy cast Elysian gleams, That play'd in waving lights, from place to place, And shed a roseate smile on Nature's face.