Essays On, I. Moral Sentiments: II. Astronomical Inquiries; III. Formation of Languages; IV. History of Ancient Physics; V. Ancient Logic and Metaphysicis; VI. The Imitative Arts; VII. Music, Dancing, Poetry; VIII. The External Senses; IX. English and Italian VersesAlex. Murray & son, 1869 - 473 páginas This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy! |
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... scarce conceive the first movements of concern upon his account . Both he and his father , perhaps , are entirely unknown to us , or we happen to be employed about other things , and do not take time to picture out in our imagination ...
... scarce conceive the first movements of concern upon his account . Both he and his father , perhaps , are entirely unknown to us , or we happen to be employed about other things , and do not take time to picture out in our imagination ...
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... scarce possible that we should make use of any other rule or canon but the correspondent affection in ourselves . If , upon bringing the case home to our own breast , we find that the sentiments which it gives occasion to , coincide and ...
... scarce possible that we should make use of any other rule or canon but the correspondent affection in ourselves . If , upon bringing the case home to our own breast , we find that the sentiments which it gives occasion to , coincide and ...
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... scarce perceptible differences of beauty and deformity ; it is the comprehensive accuracy of the experienced mathematician , who unravels , with ease , the most intricate and perplexed proportions ; it is the great leader in science and ...
... scarce perceptible differences of beauty and deformity ; it is the comprehensive accuracy of the experienced mathematician , who unravels , with ease , the most intricate and perplexed proportions ; it is the great leader in science and ...
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... scarce form an idea of the agonies of my neighbour when he is tortured with the gout , or the stone ; but I have the clearest conception of what he must suffer from an incision , a wound , or a frac- ture . The chief cause , however ...
... scarce form an idea of the agonies of my neighbour when he is tortured with the gout , or the stone ; but I have the clearest conception of what he must suffer from an incision , a wound , or a frac- ture . The chief cause , however ...
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... scarce express too much satis- faction in all the little occurrences of common life , in the company with which we spent the evening last night , in the entertainment that was set before us , in what was said and what was done , in all ...
... scarce express too much satis- faction in all the little occurrences of common life , in the company with which we spent the evening last night , in the entertainment that was set before us , in what was said and what was done , in all ...
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Términos y frases comunes
according action admiration affections agreeable altogether ancient appear approbation Aristotle astronomers attention beauty behaviour beneficence benevolence body called capable casuists Celestial Spheres character Cicero commonly conceive concerning conduct consider contempt contrary Copernicus death declensions degree deserve desire disagreeable Earth endeavour Epictetus Epicurus Epicycles equally esteem excite express feel fortune frequently gratitude greater greatest happiness Hipparchus honour human nature imagination imitation impartial spectator injustice justice kind magnanimity mankind manner means ment merit mind misfortunes moral motion motive Music necessarily never nouns substantive observed occasions ourselves pain particular passions perfect perhaps person philosophers Planets Plato pleasure prepositions principle proper object propriety prudence Ptolemy punishment qualities racter regard render resemblance resentment respect rules savage nations scarce seems seldom self-command sensation sense sensible sentiments situation society sometimes sort species Stoics suffer superior supposed sympathy things tion tranquillity Tycho Brahe vanity virtue virtuous whole
Pasajes populares
Página 10 - When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm...
Página 469 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Página 3 - I shall, in another discourse, endeavour to give an account of the general principles of law and government, and of the different revolutions they have undergone in the different ages and periods of society, not only in what concerns justice, but in what concerns police, revenue, and arms, and whatever else is the object of law.
Página 18 - Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love. I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them.
Página 207 - When he cannot establish the right, he will not disdain to ameliorate the wrong; but like Solon, when he cannot establish the best system of laws, he will endeavour to establish the best that the people can bear.
Página 9 - Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at our ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did, and never can, carry us beyond our own person, and it is by the imagination only that we can form any conception of what are his sensations. Neither can that faculty help us to this any other way, than by representing to us what would be our own, if we were in his case. It is the impressions of our own senses only, not those of his, which our imaginations...
Página 305 - The assignation of particular names to denote particular objects, that is, the institution of nouns' substantive, would, probably, be one of the first steps towards the formation of language. Two savages, who had never been taught to speak, but had been bred up remote from the societies of men, would naturally begin to form that language, by which...
Página 460 - ... planes, or surfaces diversified with variety of paint; but even then he was no less surprised, expecting the pictures would feel like the things they represented, and was amazed when he found those parts, which by their light and shadow appeared now round and uneven, felt only flat like the rest, and asked which was the lying sense, feeling or seeing?
Página 210 - The administration of the great system of the universe, however, the care of the universal happiness of all rational and sensible beings, is the business of God and not of man. To man is allotted a much humbler department, but one much more suitable to the weakness of his powers, and to the narrowness of his comprehension ; the care of his own happiness, of that of his family, his friends, his country...
Página 208 - ... all the inhabitants of the universe, the meanest as well as the greatest, are under the immediate care and protection of that great, benevolent, and all-wise Being, who directs all the movements of nature; and who is determined, by his own unalterable perfections, to maintain in it, at all times, the greatest possible quantity of happiness.