Essays on Philosophical SubjectsT. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, 1795 - 244 стор. |
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Сторінка xciii
... , from long intimacy , he might have been fuppofed to un- derstand thoroughly . The picture was always lively , and expref- five ; and commonly bore a strong and amusing resemblance five ; WRITINGS OF DR . SMITH . Xciii.
... , from long intimacy , he might have been fuppofed to un- derstand thoroughly . The picture was always lively , and expref- five ; and commonly bore a strong and amusing resemblance five ; WRITINGS OF DR . SMITH . Xciii.
Сторінка xciv
... resemblance to the original , when viewed under one particular afpect ; but feldom , perhaps , conveyed a juft and complete conception of it in all its dimenfions and proportions .--- In a word , it was the fault of his un- premeditated ...
... resemblance to the original , when viewed under one particular afpect ; but feldom , perhaps , conveyed a juft and complete conception of it in all its dimenfions and proportions .--- In a word , it was the fault of his un- premeditated ...
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... resemblance of those which immediately fucceed each other renders them more faint and languid . A parent who has loft feveral children immediately after one another , will be lefs affected with the death of the last than with that of ...
... resemblance of those which immediately fucceed each other renders them more faint and languid . A parent who has loft feveral children immediately after one another , will be lefs affected with the death of the last than with that of ...
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... resemblance , than with many things comprehended under the extenfive genus of plants . A child ima- gines that it ... resemble , and to be connected with a fpecies which we have before been acquainted with , it is by others feparated and ...
... resemblance , than with many things comprehended under the extenfive genus of plants . A child ima- gines that it ... resemble , and to be connected with a fpecies which we have before been acquainted with , it is by others feparated and ...
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... resemble this new appearance , and which present themselves to the imagination . naturally , and as it were of their own accord , our Wonder is en- tirely at an end . If we can recollect but a few , and which it re- quires too fome ...
... resemble this new appearance , and which present themselves to the imagination . naturally , and as it were of their own accord , our Wonder is en- tirely at an end . If we can recollect but a few , and which it re- quires too fome ...
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Сторінка lxxii - The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit of a remedy. But the mean rapacity, the monopolizing spirit of merchants and manufacturers, who neither are, nor ought to be, the rulers of mankind...
Сторінка 181 - ... a glass of broken jelly where a great variety of surfaces so differently refract the light, that the several distinct pencils of rays cannot be collected by the eye into their proper foci ; wherefore the shape of an object in such a case, cannot be at all discerned, though the colour may...
Сторінка xlvii - Buccleugh under the author's care, and would make it worth his while to accept of that charge. As soon as I heard this, I called on him twice, with a view of talking with him about the matter, and of convincing him of the propriety of sending that young nobleman to...
Сторінка xxiii - When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer.
Сторінка xxxvi - may appear very plausible, and be, for a long time, very generally received in the world, and yet have no foundation in nature, nor any sort of resemblance to the truth. But it is otherwise with systems of Moral Philosophy.
Сторінка lxxiii - He will accommodate, as well as he can, his public arrangements to the confirmed habits and prejudices of the people, and will remedy, as well as he can, the inconveniencies which may flow from the want of those regulations which the people are averse to submit to.
Сторінка 13 - There is no break, no stop, no gap, no interval. The ideas excited by so coherent a chain of things seem, as it were, to float through the mind of their own accord, without obliging it to exert itself, or to make any effort in order to pass from one of them to another.
Сторінка 4 - The violent and sudden change produced upon the mind, when an emotion of any kind is brought suddenly upon it, constitutes the whole nature of Surprise.
Сторінка xliii - Languages, which exhibits a very beautiful specimen of theoretical history, applied to a subject equally curious and difficult. The analogy between the train of thinking from which it has taken its...
Сторінка lxxvii - The Political Discourses of Mr. Hume were evidently of greater use to Mr. Smith, than any other book that had appeared prior to his lectures.