EssaysCarey & Lea, 1834 - 68 Seiten |
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... means . * It is not a part of our philosophy to despair of seeing the want of a full and critical life of this distinguished writer supplied . We have no ground of complaint , whatever we may have for re- gret as to the deficiency ; for ...
... means . * It is not a part of our philosophy to despair of seeing the want of a full and critical life of this distinguished writer supplied . We have no ground of complaint , whatever we may have for re- gret as to the deficiency ; for ...
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... mean no disrespect to Lord King ; on the contrary , we honour him for his principles of civil and religious freedom ; we cast no slur upon his titled rank , for he shows that the more ennobling possessions of truth , of a regard for the ...
... mean no disrespect to Lord King ; on the contrary , we honour him for his principles of civil and religious freedom ; we cast no slur upon his titled rank , for he shows that the more ennobling possessions of truth , of a regard for the ...
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... means of ascer- taining the real sentiments of Locke in regard to this important point ; and show , moreover , that they were identical both in the inception and completion of his work . In the original sketch of the Essay , which we ...
... means of ascer- taining the real sentiments of Locke in regard to this important point ; and show , moreover , that they were identical both in the inception and completion of his work . In the original sketch of the Essay , which we ...
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... mean and de- grading vices of the soul , ennobling and emblazoning the one in overpowering contrast with the other . The troublous times of the first Charles , and the agitations of the period of the Common- wealth , though they fix a ...
... mean and de- grading vices of the soul , ennobling and emblazoning the one in overpowering contrast with the other . The troublous times of the first Charles , and the agitations of the period of the Common- wealth , though they fix a ...
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... means , I was so much affected with it , as that when one told me you were sickly and would not live , I answered , ' twere better if you were dead . I desire you to forgive me this uncharitableness . For I am now satisfied that what ...
... means , I was so much affected with it , as that when one told me you were sickly and would not live , I answered , ' twere better if you were dead . I desire you to forgive me this uncharitableness . For I am now satisfied that what ...
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Seite 16 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book. kills reason itself; kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Seite 16 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Seite 49 - THOUGH THERE BE no such thing as chance in the world, our ignorance of the real cause of any event has the same influence on the understanding and begets a like species of belief or opinion.
Seite 8 - ... attribute several truths to the impressions of nature and innate characters, when we may observe in ourselves faculties fit to attain as easy and certain knowledge of them as if they were originally imprinted on the mind.
Seite 24 - ... all mankind, will sufficiently do that. Instead of that, give me leave to assure you, that I am more ready to forgive you than you can be to desire it ; and I do it so freely and fully, that I wish for nothing more than the opportunity to convince you that I truly love and esteem you ; and that I have still the same good will for you as if nothing of this had happened. To confirm this to you more fully, I should be glad to meet you anywhere...
Seite 11 - Thus the first years are usually employed and diverted in looking abroad. Men's business in them is to acquaint themselves with what is to be found without; and so, growing up in a constant attention to outward sensations, seldom make any considerable reflection on what passes within them till they come to be of riper years; and some scarce ever at all.
Seite 16 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors...
Seite 21 - ... useless in our hands ; and if by harassing our bodies ( though with a design to render ourselves more useful ) we deprive ourselves of the abilities and opportunities of doing that good we might have done with a meaner talent, which God thought sufficient for us by having denied us the strength to improve it to that pitch which men of stronger constitutions can attain to , we rob God of so much service, and our neighbour of all that help, which, in a state of health, with moderate knowledge,...
Seite 23 - I desire you to forgive me this uncharitableness. For I am now satisfied that what you have done is just, and I beg your pardon for my having hard thoughts of you for it, and for representing that you struck at the root of morality, in a principle you laid down in your book of ideas, and designed to pursue in another book, and that I took you for a Hobbist.
Seite 28 - In the latter part of the seventeenth century, and in the first part of the eighteenth...