HumeMacmillan, 1879 - 208 páginas |
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... then that from my earliest infancy I found always a strong inclination to books and letters . As our college education in Scotland , extending little further than the languages , ends commonly when we are about 1. ] 5 FALSE STARTS .
... then that from my earliest infancy I found always a strong inclination to books and letters . As our college education in Scotland , extending little further than the languages , ends commonly when we are about 1. ] 5 FALSE STARTS .
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... strong arguments , among which , at the present con- juncture , it is worth noting that the following occurs- " Where any accident , as a difference in language or reli- gion , keeps two nations , inhabiting the same country , from ...
... strong arguments , among which , at the present con- juncture , it is worth noting that the following occurs- " Where any accident , as a difference in language or reli- gion , keeps two nations , inhabiting the same country , from ...
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... strong spirit of independency , good health , a contented humour , and an unabated love of study . In these circumstances I must esteem myself one of the happy and fortunate ; and so far from being willing to draw my ticket over again ...
... strong spirit of independency , good health , a contented humour , and an unabated love of study . In these circumstances I must esteem myself one of the happy and fortunate ; and so far from being willing to draw my ticket over again ...
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... strong power of natural instinct could free us from it . Those who have a propensity to philosophy will still continue their researches ; because they reflect , that , be- sides the immediate pleasure attending such an occupation ...
... strong power of natural instinct could free us from it . Those who have a propensity to philosophy will still continue their researches ; because they reflect , that , be- sides the immediate pleasure attending such an occupation ...
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... strong is the prejudice for the distinct continued existence of the former qualities , that when the contrary opinion is advanced by modern philosophers , people imagine they can almost refute it from their reason and experience , and ...
... strong is the prejudice for the distinct continued existence of the former qualities , that when the contrary opinion is advanced by modern philosophers , people imagine they can almost refute it from their reason and experience , and ...
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Página 139 - So that, upon the whole, we may conclude that the Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity. And whoever is moved by faith to assent to it is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person which subverts all the principles of his understanding and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.
Página 116 - Propositions of this kind are discoverable by the mere operation of thought, without dependence on what is anywhere existent in the universe.
Página 165 - when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.
Página 51 - Tis evident that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and that however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another. Even mathematics, natural philosophy, and natural religion are in some measure dependent on the science of man, since they lie under the cognizance of men and are judged of by their powers and faculties.
Página 8 - Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press* without reaching such distinction as even to excite a murmur among the zealots.
Página 32 - I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation; English, Scotch, and Irish, Whig and Tory, churchman and sectary, freethinker and religionist, patriot and courtier, united in their rage against the man who had presumed to shed a generous tear for the fate of Charles I. and the earl of Strafford...
Página 115 - That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction than the affirmation that it will rise. We should in vain, therefore, attempt to demonstrate its falsehood. Were it demonstratively false, it would imply a contradiction, and could never be distinctly conceived by the mind.
Página 119 - ... twill be easy for us to conceive any object to be non-existent this moment, and existent the next, without conjoining to it the distinct idea of a cause or productive principle.
Página 116 - Again, the mathematical postulate that things which are equal to the same are equal to one another, is similar to the form of the syllogism in logic, which unites things agreeing in the middle term.
Página 166 - The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance ; pass, repass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.