The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: Dissertation : exhibiting the progress of metaphysical, ethical, and political philosophy, since the revival of letters in Europe [1854].T. Constable and Company, 1860 |
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Side 29
... final causes , is nothing but Fate and Nature . - Newton . P. 300 , n . 2 , 1. 7. - By body , I understand a mode ... cause of all things . - Spinoza . P. 301 , n . , c . 2 , 1. 15. - The foundation of the system which he built up is in ...
... final causes , is nothing but Fate and Nature . - Newton . P. 300 , n . 2 , 1. 7. - By body , I understand a mode ... cause of all things . - Spinoza . P. 301 , n . , c . 2 , 1. 15. - The foundation of the system which he built up is in ...
Side 68
... final causes ; and I know that Lucretius , though somewhat censured , is a very great poet in his descriptions and morality ; but in philosophy he appears to me , I con- fess , very much inferior to the porter of a college , and the ...
... final causes ; and I know that Lucretius , though somewhat censured , is a very great poet in his descriptions and morality ; but in philosophy he appears to me , I con- fess , very much inferior to the porter of a college , and the ...
Side 75
... causes . The proportion of yearly births to the population , and that between marriages and births , exhibit but very slight variations . In Paris , the number of births in a ... final causes , which always disappear after TRANSLATIONS . 75.
... causes . The proportion of yearly births to the population , and that between marriages and births , exhibit but very slight variations . In Paris , the number of births in a ... final causes , which always disappear after TRANSLATIONS . 75.
Side 76
Dugald Stewart Sir William Hamilton. often made of final causes , which always disappear after a searching examination of the question , once we have obtained the data necessary for its resolution . The constancy in question is a result ...
Dugald Stewart Sir William Hamilton. often made of final causes , which always disappear after a searching examination of the question , once we have obtained the data necessary for its resolution . The constancy in question is a result ...
Side 122
... final causes is barren , and , like a virgin consecrated to God , produces nothing . - Bacon . P. 337 , 1. 23. - It is incredible what a host of fictions has been introduced into philosophy , by the reduction of natural operations to ...
... final causes is barren , and , like a virgin consecrated to God , produces nothing . - Bacon . P. 337 , 1. 23. - It is incredible what a host of fictions has been introduced into philosophy , by the reduction of natural operations to ...
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according Adam Smith adduced ancient animal appear Aristotle atheism axioms Bacon Beauty believe body called character Cicero common Condillac connexion constitutes Cudworth demonstration Descartes Divine doctrine Dugald Stewart effect ence Epicurus error eternal existence experience expression faculty favour Final Causes genius Greek habit Hobbes honourable human Hume hypothesis ideas imagination induction influence instinct intelligence judgment kind knowledge labour language laws learned Leibnitz Locke logic Lucretius Malebranche mathematical matter means memory ment merits metaphysical mind mode Moral motion nature Nominalists objects observed opinion origin perceive perception perfect phenomena philosophy physical Plato pleasure Polybius possess praise principle propositions quoted in regard reason referred Reid relation resemblance sensation sense sophisms soul speak species spirit sublime suppose syllogism taste term theory things thought tical tion touching true truth universe Usury viii Virgil virtue Voltaire whole word
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Side 81 - ... 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.
Side 7 - 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...
Side 81 - 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...
Side 8 - 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...
Side 132 - 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...
Side 173 - For no perfect discovery can be made upon a flat or a level : neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.
Side 304 - DO not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.
Side 132 - And therefore the natural philosophy of Democritus and some others, who did not suppose a mind or reason in the frame of things, but attributed the form thereof able to maintain itself to infinite essays or proofs of nature...
Side 116 - 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...
Side 81 - But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive appetite ; sometimes to en-tertain 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...