Modern Philosophy: Or A Treatise of Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy from the Fourteenth Century to the French Revolution, with a Glimpse Into the Nineteenth Century

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Griffin, Bohn,, 1862 - 676 Seiten
 

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Seite 187 - Her seat is in the bosom of God, her voice is the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Seite 222 - Machiavel and others that write what men do, and not what they ought to do; for it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with the columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent, his baseness and going upon his belly, 'his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest,
Seite 658 - not to tbink of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient all I can, And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man, This was my sole resource, my only plan, Till
Seite 567 - opposed by another proof, derived from the very nature of the fact which it would endeavour to establish. It is experience only which gives authority to human testimony, and it is the same experience which assures us of the laws of nature. When, therefore, these two kinds of experiences are contrary, •we
Seite 567 - are contrary, •we have nothing to do but to subtract the one from the other, and embrace an opinion either on one side or the other, with that assurance which arises from the remainder. But, according to the principle here explained, this subtraction, with regard to all popular
Seite 662 - Sense of past youth, and manhood come in vain, And genius given, and knowledge won in vain, And all which he had culled in wood-walks wild, And all which patient toil had reared, and all Commune with
Seite 223 - of nature which are imposed upon the mind by the sex, by the age, by the region, by health and sickness, by beauty and deformity, and the like, which are inherent and not extern, and again those which are caused by extern fortune, as sovereignty, nobility, obscure birth, riches, want, magistracy,
Seite 562 - more excusable, while we march through such difficult paths •without any guide or direction. They may even prove useful by exciting curiosity and destroying that implicit faith and security which is the bane of all reasoning and free inquiry. The discovery of defects in the common philosophy, if any such, there be, will not,
Seite 217 - pure Mathematics, in that they do remedy and cure many defects in the wit and faculties intellectual. For if the wit be dull, they sharpen it; if too wandering, they fix it; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it.
Seite 568 - is conscious of a continual miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.

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