Essays on Philosophical SubjectsT. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, 1795 - 244 стор. |
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Сторінка xiii
... respect to that part of his youth which was fpent in England . have heard him fay , that he employed himself frequently in the practice of tranflation , ( particularly from the French , ) with a view to the improvement of his own ftyle ...
... respect to that part of his youth which was fpent in England . have heard him fay , that he employed himself frequently in the practice of tranflation , ( particularly from the French , ) with a view to the improvement of his own ftyle ...
Сторінка xxiii
... respect to it are very different from each other . According to Mr. HUME , all the qualities which are denominated virtuous , are useful either to our- felves or to others , and the pleasure which we derive from the view of thèm is the ...
... respect to it are very different from each other . According to Mr. HUME , all the qualities which are denominated virtuous , are useful either to our- felves or to others , and the pleasure which we derive from the view of thèm is the ...
Сторінка xxiv
... respect to our own conduct and that of others , include two diftinct perceptions : first , A percep- tion of conduct as right or wrong : and , fecondly , A perception of the merit or demerit of the agent . To that quality of conduct ...
... respect to our own conduct and that of others , include two diftinct perceptions : first , A percep- tion of conduct as right or wrong : and , fecondly , A perception of the merit or demerit of the agent . To that quality of conduct ...
Сторінка xxx
... respect to others , can merit only , that his neighbours , in their turn , fhould obferve religiously the fame laws . with refpect to him . :曩 Thefe obfervations lead Mr. SMITH to anticipate , a little the fub- jea of the fecond great ...
... respect to others , can merit only , that his neighbours , in their turn , fhould obferve religiously the fame laws . with refpect to him . :曩 Thefe obfervations lead Mr. SMITH to anticipate , a little the fub- jea of the fecond great ...
Сторінка xxxii
... respect to both ; by leading us to form a good or a bad opinion of the prudence with which the ac- tion was performed , and by animating our fenfe of the merit or demerit of his defign . Thefe facts , however , do not furnish any ...
... respect to both ; by leading us to form a good or a bad opinion of the prudence with which the ac- tion was performed , and by animating our fenfe of the merit or demerit of his defign . Thefe facts , however , do not furnish any ...
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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.