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Pàgina 20
... rest not satisfied , till they arrive at those original principles , by which " in every science all human curiosity must be bounded . Though their spe- " culations seem abstract , and even unintelligible to common readers , they " aim ...
... rest not satisfied , till they arrive at those original principles , by which " in every science all human curiosity must be bounded . Though their spe- " culations seem abstract , and even unintelligible to common readers , they " aim ...
Pàgina 24
... rest or motion , essential to matter , which is inconsistent with its possessing any active power . Those , therefore , which have been called the natural powers of matter , as gravity , attraction , elasticity , repulsion , are not ...
... rest or motion , essential to matter , which is inconsistent with its possessing any active power . Those , therefore , which have been called the natural powers of matter , as gravity , attraction , elasticity , repulsion , are not ...
Pàgina 28
... rest in doubt ; and he had formed to himself a positive creed , not only in all matters of Theology , of Philosophy and Science , but even of Taste . He possessed that ardour in the search of truth , which never stops in its pursuit ...
... rest in doubt ; and he had formed to himself a positive creed , not only in all matters of Theology , of Philosophy and Science , but even of Taste . He possessed that ardour in the search of truth , which never stops in its pursuit ...
Pàgina 44
... rest , and endeavoured , with all the acuteness of which he was master , to shew its application to the question in discussion . He knew that if the principle were once conceded , and its application demonstrated , the cause was gained ...
... rest , and endeavoured , with all the acuteness of which he was master , to shew its application to the question in discussion . He knew that if the principle were once conceded , and its application demonstrated , the cause was gained ...
Pàgina 64
... rest of my journey . — I blotted out the names in the letters , and may mine be so served in the Book of Life , if I don't wish your happiness , as I do that of JAMES FORRESTER . " . With the elegant and accomplished WILLIAM HAMILTON of ...
... rest of my journey . — I blotted out the names in the letters , and may mine be so served in the Book of Life , if I don't wish your happiness , as I do that of JAMES FORRESTER . " . With the elegant and accomplished WILLIAM HAMILTON of ...
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Pàgina 100 - The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
Pàgina 100 - Most fortunately it happens that, since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression of my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when, after three or four hours...
Pàgina 305 - But I will punish home: No, I will weep no more. In such a night To shut me out! Pour on; I will endure. In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril! Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all, — O! that way madness lies; let me shun that; No more of that.
Pàgina 97 - I run into the crowd for shelter and warmth, but cannot prevail with myself to mix with such deformity. I call upon others to join me, in order to make a company apart, but no one will hearken to me.
Pàgina 76 - But now the question follows, what punishment can human laws inflict on one who has withdrawn himself from their reach? They can only act upon what he has left behind him, his reputation and fortune: on the former, by an ignominious burial in the highway, with a stake driven through his body; on...
Pàgina 306 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these?
Pàgina 295 - There is a flutter or hurry of thought which attends the first perusal of any piece, and which confounds the genuine sentiment of beauty. The relation of the parts is not discerned : The true characters of style are little distinguished. The several perfections and defects seem wrapped up in a species of confusion, and present themselves indistinctly to the imagination.
Pàgina 180 - ... cum prorepserunt primis animalia terris, mutum et turpe pecus, glandem atque cubilia propter unguibus et pugnis, dein fustibus atque ita porro pugnabant armis, quae post fabricaverat usus...
Pàgina 327 - Work, on the one hand, to exhibit, he does not say, a correct map, but a tolerable sketch of the human mind ; and, aided by the lights which the Poet and the Orator so amply furnish, to disclose its secret movements, tracing its principal channels of perception and action, as near as possible, to their source : and, on the other hand, from the science of human nature, to ascertain with greater precision, the radical principles of that art, whose object it is, by the use of language, to operate on...
Pàgina 264 - No one can more sincerely rejoice than I do on the reduction of Canada, and this is not merely as I am a Colonist but as I am a Briton. I have long been of opinion that the foundations of the future grandeur and stability of the British Empire lie in America; and though, like other foundations, they are low and little now, they are nevertheless broad and strong enough to support the greatest political structure that human wisdom ever yet erected.