A Grammar of Logic and Intellectual Philosophy: On Didactic Principles ...A. H. Maltby, 1837 - 304 páginas |
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... less the soul of reasoning than of wit . Their knowledge , however , is not to rest on tarnished fragments struck off from splendid systems , nor on defective models the relics of doubt- ful institutes ; but on the details of human ...
... less the soul of reasoning than of wit . Their knowledge , however , is not to rest on tarnished fragments struck off from splendid systems , nor on defective models the relics of doubt- ful institutes ; but on the details of human ...
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... less it is liable to err , the more certain and expeditious will be its progress in new and untried pursuits . The more we are acquainted with those sophis- tries which have misled other reasoners , the less liable shall we be to fall ...
... less it is liable to err , the more certain and expeditious will be its progress in new and untried pursuits . The more we are acquainted with those sophis- tries which have misled other reasoners , the less liable shall we be to fall ...
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... his own likeness . The brush which he uses , and which comes in contact with the canvass , possesses no power of forming a likeness of itself , far less of the human countenance . Nor is the power in 20 BOOK I. A Grammar of Logic .
... his own likeness . The brush which he uses , and which comes in contact with the canvass , possesses no power of forming a likeness of itself , far less of the human countenance . Nor is the power in 20 BOOK I. A Grammar of Logic .
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... less in degree , or duration , nor any thing else in kind , that it is felt to be . It cannot exist by itself , nor in any subject , but in a sentient being . No qual- ity of any inanimate and insentient being can have the least resem ...
... less in degree , or duration , nor any thing else in kind , that it is felt to be . It cannot exist by itself , nor in any subject , but in a sentient being . No qual- ity of any inanimate and insentient being can have the least resem ...
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... less properly applied . Note . Other words that need explication , shall be explained as they occur . CHAPTER II . PRINCIPLES TAKEN FOR GRANTED . 43. A GENERAL rule , when applied to regulate particu- lars , is termed a principle ; and ...
... less properly applied . Note . Other words that need explication , shall be explained as they occur . CHAPTER II . PRINCIPLES TAKEN FOR GRANTED . 43. A GENERAL rule , when applied to regulate particu- lars , is termed a principle ; and ...
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abstract action affirmed agree agreement analogy animals appears argument association of ideas attention attri attributes axiom beautiful belief belong body called cause color combinations common complex comprehends conceive conception conclusion conduct connection consciousness consequence constitution conviction Corol degree demonstration disagree distinguished effect enthymemes equal equilibrist Euclid Example exercise exertions existence expressed faculty feel figure genius genus gism give hypothetical syllogism IDOLA FORI IDOLA THEATRI Illus illustration Imagination individuals infer intellectual intermediate ideas judge judgment kind knowledge language laws Logicians major term mankind manner mathematics means memory ment middle term minor term moral natural signs nature never observe operations opinions particular passions perceive perception person philosophers predicate premises principles produce proper proposition qualities reasoning relation sensation sense signify simple sophism species suppose syllogism taste testimony things tion train of thought triangle truth understanding various whole words
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Página 94 - 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 the ruins of lona.
Página 41 - My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me...
Página 116 - The association of ideas suggested them, and the power of conception placed each of them before him with all its beauties and imperfections. In every natural scene, if we destine it for any particular purpose, there are defects and redundancies, which art may sometimes, but cannot always, correct. But the power of imagination is unlimited. She can create and annihilate ; and dispose, at pleasure, her woods, her rocks, and her rivers. Milton, accordingly, would not copy his Eden from any one scene,...
Página 35 - Some of them have moons, that serve to give them light in the absence of the sun, as our moon does to us. They are all, in their motions, subject to the same law of gravitation as the earth is. From all this similitude, it is not unreasonable to think that those planets may, like our earth, be the habitation of various orders of living creatures.
Página 62 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Página 91 - Heavens ! how unlike their Belgic sires of old ! Rough, poor, content, ungovernably bold ; War in each breast, and freedom on each brow.
Página 89 - Hope and fear alternate sway*d his breast; Like light and shade upon a waving field, Coursing each other, when the flying clouds Now hide, and now reveal, the sun.
Página 91 - My soul, turn from them, turn we to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display ; Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread. No product here the barren hills afford, But man and steel, the soldier and his sword : No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May : No zephyr fondly...
Página 22 - Consciousness is a word used by philosophers, to signify that immediate knowledge which we have of our present thoughts and purposes, and, in general, of all the present operations of our minds. Whence we may observe, that consciousness is only of things present. To apply consciousness to things past, which sometimes is done in popular discourse, is to confound consciousness with memory; and all such confusion of words ought to be avoided in philosophical discourse.
Página 174 - If he has a leg or an arm cut off, he is the same person he was before. The amputated member is no part of his person, otherwise it would have a right to a part of his estate, and be liable for a part of his engagements: it would be entitled to a share of his merit and demerit, which is manifestly...