Philosophical ArrangementsJ. Nourse, 1775 - 485 páginas |
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... those I mean ( and it must be confest they are many ) who , having spent their whole lives in what Milton calls the bufy hum of Men , have acquired to themselves Habits of amaz- ing efficacy , unaffifted by the helps of Science and ...
... those I mean ( and it must be confest they are many ) who , having spent their whole lives in what Milton calls the bufy hum of Men , have acquired to themselves Habits of amaz- ing efficacy , unaffifted by the helps of Science and ...
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... those , who are honoured with your nearer friendship , know that you can fpeculate as well as act , and can employ your pen both with Elegance and Inftruction . IT may not perhaps be unentertaining to your Lordship to fee , in what ...
... those , who are honoured with your nearer friendship , know that you can fpeculate as well as act , and can employ your pen both with Elegance and Inftruction . IT may not perhaps be unentertaining to your Lordship to fee , in what ...
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... those Arts , which help to improve Human Reason , it must neceffarily be an Art of the pro- greffive Character ; an Art which , not ending with itself , has a view to fome- thing farther . If then in the following Speculations it should ...
... those Arts , which help to improve Human Reason , it must neceffarily be an Art of the pro- greffive Character ; an Art which , not ending with itself , has a view to fome- thing farther . If then in the following Speculations it should ...
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... THE BOOK ALSO TREATS CONCERNING THOSE COMMON CHARAC TERS OR ATTRIBUTES , INTO WHICH ALL BEINGS ARE DIVIDED . Ammon . in Prad . p . 16. Edit . Ved net . 8vo . C thus Ch . I. thus represented , and that with respect ARRANGEMENTS . 17.
... THE BOOK ALSO TREATS CONCERNING THOSE COMMON CHARAC TERS OR ATTRIBUTES , INTO WHICH ALL BEINGS ARE DIVIDED . Ammon . in Prad . p . 16. Edit . Ved net . 8vo . C thus Ch . I. thus represented , and that with respect ARRANGEMENTS . 17.
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... those se- veral Defcriptions , and why Ariftotle prefers them to their peculiar Names , may confult his Greek Com- mentator , Ammonius , and his Latin one , Boethius , who are both of them copious and accurate upon the fubject . Circum ...
... those se- veral Defcriptions , and why Ariftotle prefers them to their peculiar Names , may confult his Greek Com- mentator , Ammonius , and his Latin one , Boethius , who are both of them copious and accurate upon the fubject . Circum ...
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alfo alſo Ammonius Animal Archytas arife Arift Ariftotle Arrangement Arrian Attributes becauſe Body C.XIII C.XVI called Capacity Caufe Cauſe Ch.IX Ch.VI Ch.XI Chap character contrary defcribed Diftinctions diftinguished Edit effential Energy exift exiſtence faid fame fhall fhould fimple firft firſt fome fomething Form ftill fuch fuppofe Genus hence Hermes himſelf itſelf laft lefs Matter moſt Motion muſt Nature neceffarily Number obferved Ovid Paffivity Philofopher Phyf Phyfical Plato Plutarch poffefs Pofition Power Prad Præd Predicaments Principle Propofitions Quality Quantity reafon refpect reft Relation Senfation Senfe ſhall Species Subftance Subject ſuch Sylb thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thro tion Treatife univerfal uſed VAPPA XVII ἀλλ ἂν γὰρ δὲ εἶναι εἰς ἐκ ἐν ἔτε ἦν καὶ τὸ κατὰ λέγεται μὲν μὴ οἷον ὅτι περὶ πρὸς τὰ τε τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ δὲ τὸ μὲν τοῖς τὸν τῷ τῶν ὡς
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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...