Elements of General Knowledge: Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of Literature and Science, 2권Rivington [and others], 1805 |
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... species of reasoning , which is called demonstration . For whatever is deduced from our intuitive perceptions by a clear and connect- ed series of proofs is said to be demonstrated , and produces absolute certainty . Hence the knowledge ...
... species of reasoning , which is called demonstration . For whatever is deduced from our intuitive perceptions by a clear and connect- ed series of proofs is said to be demonstrated , and produces absolute certainty . Hence the knowledge ...
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... species , or with one or more of the species belonging to a genus , and not with the whole universal idea . Thus , 66 some stones are heavier than iron ; " " some men have an uncommon share of folly . " In the last of these pro ...
... species , or with one or more of the species belonging to a genus , and not with the whole universal idea . Thus , 66 some stones are heavier than iron ; " " some men have an uncommon share of folly . " In the last of these pro ...
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... species , ge- nera , & c . We may likewise have a general notion of an animal : but it is by the study of anatomy we gain a particular knowledge of its bones , veins , cartilages , and other parts . This is analytic method . Watts's ...
... species , ge- nera , & c . We may likewise have a general notion of an animal : but it is by the study of anatomy we gain a particular knowledge of its bones , veins , cartilages , and other parts . This is analytic method . Watts's ...
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... between the intellectual properties of man , and the instinctive power of beasts . The external figure of the human species indicates him to be the lord of the creation . His body is upright , and his countenance THE WORKS OF NATURE . 91.
... between the intellectual properties of man , and the instinctive power of beasts . The external figure of the human species indicates him to be the lord of the creation . His body is upright , and his countenance THE WORKS OF NATURE . 91.
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... species , Buffon , vol . iii , p . 57. Gregory's Comp . View . For man , as the head of the classes of animals , see Linnæi Systema , vol i , p . 36 , & c . His external and internal constitution , But- ler's Analogy , preface , p . 16 ...
... species , Buffon , vol . iii , p . 57. Gregory's Comp . View . For man , as the head of the classes of animals , see Linnæi Systema , vol i , p . 36 , & c . His external and internal constitution , But- ler's Analogy , preface , p . 16 ...
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265 페이지 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
277 페이지 - Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice the harmony of the world. All things in heaven and earth do her homage ; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
172 페이지 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
265 페이지 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among...
253 페이지 - These ways would try all their peculiar gifts of nature ; and if there were any secret excellence among them would fetch it out, and give it fair opportunities to advance itself by...
177 페이지 - On a rock whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood (Loose his beard, and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air), And with a master's hand, and prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.
253 페이지 - But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
187 페이지 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; 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.
187 페이지 - Inspire my dreams, and my wild wanderings guide ; Your voice each rugged path of life can smooth, For well I- know wherever ye reside, There harmony, .and peace, and innocence abide.
257 페이지 - ... deserve the regard and honour of all men where they pass, and the society and friendship of those in all places who are best and most eminent And perhaps then other nations will be glad to visit us for their breeding, or else to imitate us in their own country.