Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Том 2C. Whittingham, Dean Street, 1805 |
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... their images or forms , without the matter ; as wax receives the form of the seal , without any of the matter of it . These images or forms , are called sensible species ; and are the objects only of 52 BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SKETCHES .
... their images or forms , without the matter ; as wax receives the form of the seal , without any of the matter of it . These images or forms , are called sensible species ; and are the objects only of 52 BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SKETCHES .
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... objects , and in affirming that the object perceived must be some image or phan- tasm present to the mind , has been completely overturned by the writings of Dr. Reid and Du- gald Stewart . From the last - mentioned author , I shall ...
... objects , and in affirming that the object perceived must be some image or phan- tasm present to the mind , has been completely overturned by the writings of Dr. Reid and Du- gald Stewart . From the last - mentioned author , I shall ...
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... object are made known to us by means of species , or phan- tasms , or images , which are present to the mind in the ... objects , are followed by correspondent sensations ; and 54 BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SKETCHES .
... object are made known to us by means of species , or phan- tasms , or images , which are present to the mind in the ... objects , are followed by correspondent sensations ; and 54 BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SKETCHES .
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... objects themselves , and not any species or images of these objects , that the mind perceives ; and that , although , by the constitution of our nature , certain sensations are rendered the constant antecedents of our perceptions , yet ...
... objects themselves , and not any species or images of these objects , that the mind perceives ; and that , although , by the constitution of our nature , certain sensations are rendered the constant antecedents of our perceptions , yet ...
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... object which more than any other event in his life marks the great and disinterested benevolence of his heart . He had long cherished , and meditated upon , a scheme for converting the savage Americans to christia- nity , by a college ...
... object which more than any other event in his life marks the great and disinterested benevolence of his heart . He had long cherished , and meditated upon , a scheme for converting the savage Americans to christia- nity , by a college ...
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Сторінка 88 - Or o'er the glebe distil the kindly rain; Others on earth o'er human race preside, Watch all their ways, and all their actions guide: Of these the chief the care of nations own, And guard with arms divine the British throne. 'Our humbler province is to tend the fair, Not a less pleasing, though less glorious care; To save the powder from too rude a gale, Nor let th...
Сторінка 381 - It was said of Socrates, that he brought Philosophy down from Heaven to inhabit among Men ; and I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and Libraries, Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses.
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Сторінка 104 - Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky!
Сторінка 297 - That mingles all my brown with sober gray, Revere the man, whose pilgrim marks the road, And guides the progress of the soul to God.
Сторінка 227 - O'er which were shadowy cast elysian gleams, That played, in waving lights, from place to place ; And shed a roseate smile on nature's face.
Сторінка 342 - The whole examination was summed up with one short question, namely, whether he was prepared for death ? The boy, who had been bred up by honest parents, was frighted out of his wits at the solemnity of the proceeding, and by the last dreadful interrogatory ; so that upon making his escape out of this house of mourning, he could never be brought a second time to the examination, as not being able to go through the terrors of it.
Сторінка 381 - Since I have raised to myself so great an Audience, I shall spare no Pains to make their Instruction agreeable, and their Diversion useful. For which Reasons I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways find their Account in the Speculation of the Day.