Epitome of English literature; or, A concentration of the matter of standard English authors, ed. under the superintendence of A. J. Valpy, Tom 3 |
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Strona 117
... depend on the palate , so happi- ness consists in having the things which produce the greatest pleasure . If men , therefore , can in this life only enjoy , it is not strange that they should seek their happiness by avoiding what pains ...
... depend on the palate , so happi- ness consists in having the things which produce the greatest pleasure . If men , therefore , can in this life only enjoy , it is not strange that they should seek their happiness by avoiding what pains ...
Strona 118
... depend on the judgment we form , and the relish we have for that good , in both of which we are apt to be misled , and that by our own fault . I shall first consider the wrong judgments men make of future good and evil . In present ...
... depend on the judgment we form , and the relish we have for that good , in both of which we are apt to be misled , and that by our own fault . I shall first consider the wrong judgments men make of future good and evil . In present ...
Strona 119
English literature Abraham John Valpy. the happiness and misery with them that depend on them , but are causes of good and evil which they bring on us when themselves have passed , our desires look beyond the present , and carry the mind ...
English literature Abraham John Valpy. the happiness and misery with them that depend on them , but are causes of good and evil which they bring on us when themselves have passed , our desires look beyond the present , and carry the mind ...
Strona 121
... depend on them as there really does ; 2. when we judge that though the conse- quence be of moment it may not be certain , or may by some means be avoided , as by industry , repentance , & c . It were easy to show this to be wrong in ...
... depend on them as there really does ; 2. when we judge that though the conse- quence be of moment it may not be certain , or may by some means be avoided , as by industry , repentance , & c . It were easy to show this to be wrong in ...
Strona 127
... depend : for by these may be explained colors , sounds , tastes , smells , and all other ideas . But my present purpose being only to inquire into the knowlege the mind has of things by the ideas and appearances which God has fitted it ...
... depend : for by these may be explained colors , sounds , tastes , smells , and all other ideas . But my present purpose being only to inquire into the knowlege the mind has of things by the ideas and appearances which God has fitted it ...
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Strona 251 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Strona 40 - ... on the other side, in separating carefully one from another Ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude and by affinity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion, wherein for the most part lies that entertainment and pleasantry of wit which strikes so lively on the fancy, and therefore is so acceptable to all people...
Strona 216 - Knowledge then seems to me to be nothing but the perception of the connexion and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy, of any of our ideas.
Strona 226 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Strona 45 - ... we oftentimes find a disease quite strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever in a few days calcine all those images to dust and confusion, which seemed to be as lasting as if graved in marble.
Strona 209 - It is evident how much men love to deceive, and be deceived, since rhetoric, that powerful instrument of error and deceit, has its established professors, is publicly taught, and has always been had in great reputation...
Strona 45 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Strona 168 - Words become general by being made the signs of general ideas; and ideas become general by separating from them the circumstances of time and place and any other ideas that may determine them to this or that particular existence.
Strona 208 - But yet, if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment ; and so indeed are perfect cheats...
Strona 45 - The other way of retention, is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas, which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been as it were laid aside out of sight; and thus we do, when we conceive heat or light, yellow or sweet, the object being removed. This is memory, which is as it were the store-house of our ideas.