Critical Essays on a Few Subjects Connected with the History and Present Condition of Speculative PhilosophyH.B. Williams, 1842 - 352 This book contains a collection of critical essays on a few subjects connected with the history and present condition of speculative philosophy, including an essay on the transcendentalist movement in America. |
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Strona vii
... but all are able to decide questions of legislation , which are to affect the whole commerce and agricul- ture of the country , because the decision here seems to depend only on general principles . As all doubts PREFACE . vii.
... but all are able to decide questions of legislation , which are to affect the whole commerce and agricul- ture of the country , because the decision here seems to depend only on general principles . As all doubts PREFACE . vii.
Strona viii
... doubts respecting the proper policy are so quickly determined by a few general truths , that the real business of the country is now transacted , not in the halls of legisla- tion , but in the primary assemblies of the people ...
... doubts respecting the proper policy are so quickly determined by a few general truths , that the real business of the country is now transacted , not in the halls of legisla- tion , but in the primary assemblies of the people ...
Strona ix
... for the limitations suggested by experience , it is not surpris- ing , that theories of society should be propounded from time to time , so novel and extravagant in their character , that we are tempted to doubt the sanity PREFACE . ix.
... for the limitations suggested by experience , it is not surpris- ing , that theories of society should be propounded from time to time , so novel and extravagant in their character , that we are tempted to doubt the sanity PREFACE . ix.
Strona x
Francis Bowen. character , that we are tempted to doubt the sanity of their advocates . Plans of universal reform and the regeneration of mankind , are proposed with a fre- quency , which appears rather marvellous to those who are ...
Francis Bowen. character , that we are tempted to doubt the sanity of their advocates . Plans of universal reform and the regeneration of mankind , are proposed with a fre- quency , which appears rather marvellous to those who are ...
Strona xvii
... doubt and uncertainty , into a theory , which may be called the dogmatism of unbelief . Most of the following Essays were written in the hope of throwing some light on the character and b * tendency of a few of those foreign systems of ...
... doubt and uncertainty , into a theory , which may be called the dogmatism of unbelief . Most of the following Essays were written in the hope of throwing some light on the character and b * tendency of a few of those foreign systems of ...
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Strona 298 - ... all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind, that their being is to be perceived or known ; that consequently so long as they are not actually perceived by me, or do not exist in my mind or that of any other created spirit, they must either have no existence at all, or else subsist in the mind of some Eternal Spirit...
Strona 28 - Eloquence, like the fair sex, has too prevailing beauties in it to suffer itself ever to be spoken against. And it is in vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.
Strona 277 - It is, I think, agreed by all that Distance, of itself and immediately, cannot be seen. For, distance being a line directed endwise to the eye, it projects only one point in the fund of the eye, which point remains invariably the same, whether the distance be longer or shorter.
Strona 309 - Siris, a Chain of Philosophical Reflections and Inquiries concerning the Virtues of TAR WATER...
Strona 290 - The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
Strona 135 - And so I doubt not it would be to a waking man, if it were possible for him to keep only one idea in his mind, without variation and the succession of others. And we see that one who fixes his thoughts very intently on one thing, so as to take but little notice of the succession of ideas that pass in his mind, whilst he is taken up with that earnest contemplation, lets slip out of his account a good part of that duration, and thinks that time shorter than...
Strona 280 - When he first saw, he was so far from making any judgment about distances, that he thought all objects whatever touched his eyes, as he expressed it, as what he felt did his skin; and thought no objects so agreeable as those which were smooth and regular, though he could form no judgment of their shape, or guess what it was in any object that was pleasing to him.
Strona 280 - One particular only, though it may appear trifling, I will relate. Having often forgot which was the cat and which the dog, he was ashamed to ask, but catching the cat, which he knew by feeling, he was observed to look at her steadfastly, and then setting her down said, so puss, I shall know you another time.
Strona 298 - How great a friend material substance hath been to Atheists in all ages, were needless to relate. All their monstrous systems have so visible and necessary a dependence on it, that when this corner-stone is once removed, the whole fabric cannot choose but fall to the ground...
Strona 267 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.