Philosophical ArrangementsJ. Nourse, 1775 - 485 páginas |
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... Quantity , what - Quantities relative - Figure and Num- ber , their Effect upon Quan- tity - Importance of this Ef- fect - Sciences Mathematical appertain to it - their Ufe , according • according to Plato - How other Beings partake of ...
... Quantity , what - Quantities relative - Figure and Num- ber , their Effect upon Quan- tity - Importance of this Ef- fect - Sciences Mathematical appertain to it - their Ufe , according • according to Plato - How other Beings partake of ...
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... QUANTITY , and that which is infi- nite in Form is unknowable as to QUALITY . But the Principles being infinite both in Multitude and in Qua- lity , tis impofible to know the Beings derived cut of them . For then ' tis we conceive that ...
... QUANTITY , and that which is infi- nite in Form is unknowable as to QUALITY . But the Principles being infinite both in Multitude and in Qua- lity , tis impofible to know the Beings derived cut of them . For then ' tis we conceive that ...
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... QUANTITY , that of Figure and Organization QUALITY , we may set down these two ( I mean Quantity and Quality ) as the two great effential Attri- butes belonging to every Substance , whe- ther natural or artificial . AGAIN , every ...
... QUANTITY , that of Figure and Organization QUALITY , we may set down these two ( I mean Quantity and Quality ) as the two great effential Attri- butes belonging to every Substance , whe- ther natural or artificial . AGAIN , every ...
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... Quantity , has ( in an en- larged use of the Words ) a Power to act . Thus ' tis through Will , that Men study ; through Appetite , that Brutes eat ; through its Figure , that the Clock goes ; and through its Quantity , that the Stone ...
... Quantity , has ( in an en- larged use of the Words ) a Power to act . Thus ' tis through Will , that Men study ; through Appetite , that Brutes eat ; through its Figure , that the Clock goes ; and through its Quantity , that the Stone ...
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... ther ; of Servant , that of Master : in Quantity , the Existence of greater in- fers that of lefs ; in Pofition , above infers below ; and in the time When , fubfequent has has a neceffary respect to prior . ' Tis Ch 30 PHILOSOPHICAL.
... ther ; of Servant , that of Master : in Quantity , the Existence of greater in- fers that of lefs ; in Pofition , above infers below ; and in the time When , fubfequent has has a neceffary respect to prior . ' Tis Ch 30 PHILOSOPHICAL.
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Página 126 - Note here, Lucretius dares to teach (As all our youth may learn from Creech) That eyes were made but could not view, Nor hands embrace, nor feet pursue, But heedless Nature did produce The members first, and then the use: What each must act was yet unknown, Till all is mov'd by Chance alone.
Página 306 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Página 170 - The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heav'n to earth, from earth to heav'n; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination.
Página 4 - If we descend to later ages, and search our own country, we shall find sir Thomas More, sir Philip Sidney, sir Walter Raleigh, lord Herbert of Cherbury, Milton, Algernon Sidney, sir William Temple, and many others, to have been all of them eminent in public life, and yet at the same time conspicuous for their speculations and literature.
Página 99 - armed with tearing fangs, how perfectly does it correfpond to the fierce-- " nefs of the lion ! Had it been adorned like the human arm with fingers " inftead of fangs, the natural energies of a lion had been all of them de
Página 8 - ... its importance may be great, it partakes, from its very nature, (which cannot be changed,) more of the deformed god, than of the beautiful goddess.
Página 114 - tis from Mind, when they adorn Matter, that they primarily proceed: so that, whether we contemplate the works of Art, or the more excellent Works of Nature, all that we look at, as beautiful, or listen to, as harmonious, is the genuine EFFLUENCE OR EMANATION OF MIND.
Página 352 - If there were no theorems of science to guide the operations of art, there would be no art ; but if there were no operations of art, there might still be theorems of science. Therefore science is prior to art.
Página 159 - The original power which the mind possesses of being taught, we call natural capacity; and this in some degree is common to all men. The superior facility of being taught, which some possess above the rest, we call genius. The first transition or advances from natural power, we call proficiency; and the end or completion of proficiency we call habit. If such habit be conversant about matter purely speculative, it is then called science; if it descend from speculation to practice, it is then called...
Página 118 - I see that the soul communicates vigour and motion to mortal bodies during its continuance in them. Neither can I be persuaded that the soul is divested of intelligence on its separation from this gross, senseless body ; but it is probable that when...