Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization: As Preserved and Presented by the World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen1Ferd. P. Kaiser, 1902 |
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... tion of the facts as they pass before us , and by carefully distin- guishing their true or uniform relations from connections which are only incidental and temporary . In our first observation of any particular series of facts or events ...
... tion of the facts as they pass before us , and by carefully distin- guishing their true or uniform relations from connections which are only incidental and temporary . In our first observation of any particular series of facts or events ...
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... tion of what is the true antecedent . A child who has been only once burnt may dread the fire as certainly as if the accident had happened a hundred times ; and there are many other instances in which the conviction may be produced in ...
... tion of what is the true antecedent . A child who has been only once burnt may dread the fire as certainly as if the accident had happened a hundred times ; and there are many other instances in which the conviction may be produced in ...
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... tion is derived from experience alone ; for , in regard to any two such events , our idea of causation or of power amounts to nothing more than our knowledge of the fact that the one is invariably the antecedent of the other . Of the ...
... tion is derived from experience alone ; for , in regard to any two such events , our idea of causation or of power amounts to nothing more than our knowledge of the fact that the one is invariably the antecedent of the other . Of the ...
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... tion of their natural relations ; and we cannot change these rela- tions in the smallest particular . Our power is of course also limited to those objects which are within the reach of our imme- diate influence ; but with respect to ...
... tion of their natural relations ; and we cannot change these rela- tions in the smallest particular . Our power is of course also limited to those objects which are within the reach of our imme- diate influence ; but with respect to ...
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... tion medicine and political economy ; and their uncertainty is ref- erable to the same sources , namely , the difficulty of ascertaining the true relations of things , or of tracing effects to their true causes , and causes to their ...
... tion medicine and political economy ; and their uncertainty is ref- erable to the same sources , namely , the difficulty of ascertaining the true relations of things , or of tracing effects to their true causes , and causes to their ...
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Página 231 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 31 - 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 ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite 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, VOL, VII.
Página 232 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Página xvii - We have but faith : we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow.
Página 51 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Página 307 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Página 54 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them ; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these...
Página 97 - As we stood before Busby's tomb, the Knight uttered himself again after the same manner, — "Dr. Busby — a great man ! he whipped my grandfather — a very great man...
Página 41 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet...
Página 334 - Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend: " Abeunt studia in mores" Nay, there is no stond nor impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies...