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... world he was about to enter by learning to know his mother by her smile , - Incipe parve puer , risu cognoscere matrem . nomena which infants exhibit ; nor perhaps so wonderful as 12 [ chap . 1 . ELEMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY.
... world he was about to enter by learning to know his mother by her smile , - Incipe parve puer , risu cognoscere matrem . nomena which infants exhibit ; nor perhaps so wonderful as 12 [ chap . 1 . ELEMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY.
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Dugald Stewart. nomena which infants exhibit ; nor perhaps so wonderful as that instinctive terror with which nature has certainly endow- ed some of the brutes for the destined enemies of their re- spective tribes . It deserves , too ...
Dugald Stewart. nomena which infants exhibit ; nor perhaps so wonderful as that instinctive terror with which nature has certainly endow- ed some of the brutes for the destined enemies of their re- spective tribes . It deserves , too ...
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... perhaps we may be unable to give a satisfactory account of its origin . Thus the agreement , among so many different tribes , in various quarters of the globe , to employ a branch of a tree as an emblem of peace , has probably been ...
... perhaps we may be unable to give a satisfactory account of its origin . Thus the agreement , among so many different tribes , in various quarters of the globe , to employ a branch of a tree as an emblem of peace , has probably been ...
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... " de grace ne parlons pas politique . " " - -Euvres Inedites de Madame la Ba- ronne de Staël , publiées par son fils . Tome I. p . 49 . amined , will , perhaps , be found to consist 18 [ chap . 1 . ELEMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY.
... " de grace ne parlons pas politique . " " - -Euvres Inedites de Madame la Ba- ronne de Staël , publiées par son fils . Tome I. p . 49 . amined , will , perhaps , be found to consist 18 [ chap . 1 . ELEMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY.
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Dugald Stewart. amined , will , perhaps , be found to consist less in any thing po- sitive or specific , than in a complete negation of every thing which can be supposed , by the most remote association , to ap- proximate the possessor ...
Dugald Stewart. amined , will , perhaps , be found to consist less in any thing po- sitive or specific , than in a complete negation of every thing which can be supposed , by the most remote association , to ap- proximate the possessor ...
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Page 213 - ... shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find dif-ferences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores: if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases:...
Page 213 - Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores.
Page 239 - Paper, it seems the immediate Direction of Providence, and such an Operation of the supreme Being, as that which determines all the Portions of Matter to their proper Centres.
Page 54 - ... 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.
Page 208 - In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, and frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar — if hungry, dry, cold, wet or sick...
Page 150 - Doctum imitatorem, et vivas hinc ducere voces. Interdum speciosa locis morataque recte Fabula, nullius veneris, sine pondere et arte, Valdius oblectat populum, meliusque moratur, Quam versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.
Page 173 - I would go fifty miles on foot, for I have not a horse worth riding on, to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author's hands, be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore.
Page 379 - When a body is once in motion, it moveth, unless something else hinder it, eternally; and whatsoever hindreth it, cannot in an instant, but in time, and by degrees, quite extinguish it; and as we see in the water, though the wind cease, the waves give not over rolling for a long time after: so also it happeneth in that motion, which is made in the internal parts of a man, then, when he sees, dreams, &c.
Page 211 - En vérité, dit-elle, il faut un peu entre amis laisser « trotter les plumes comme elles veulent : la mienne a toujours
Page 54 - The memory of some men, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle ; but yet there seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive; so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kinds of objects which at first occasioned them, the print wears out, and at last there remains nothing to be seen.