 | James McCosh - 1875 - 506 pages
...mature age of thirty-eight, that he published in the." Transactions of the Royal Society of London," " An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise...Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit." Francis Hutcheson had spoken of the benevolence of an agent — which with him constitutes virtue —... | |
 | William Anderson - 1867 - 772 pages
...1748 he communicated to the Transactions of the Royal Society ' An Essay ou Quantity, occasioned hy reading a Treatise, in which Simple and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit.' In 1752 he was elected professor of moral philosophy in King's college, Old Aherdeen. Soou after his... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1884 - 140 pages
...was an " Essay on Quantity," which was occasioned by reading the work of Dr. Hutcheson, of Glasgow, in which Simple and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit. In 1752, Reid was elected Professor of Philosophy in King's College, Aberdeen. His academical lectures... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1892 - 390 pages
...in the " Transactions " of the Royal Society of London, and "Collected Works," vol. x, p. 251. was entitled, "An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading...Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit." The "Treatise" to which Reid alludes was Hutcheson's "Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty... | |
 | Wesley Historical Society - 1904 - 366 pages
...National Biography. [But Wesley speaks of his "ingenious Essay"; ie, An Essay on Quantity, on occasion of reading a treatise in which simple and compound ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit. This, in criticism of Hutcheson, is in Philosophical Transactions, 1748. — AG\ June 24, 1774. WILSON,... | |
 | 1911 - 1088 pages
...however, dealt with a question of philosophical method suggested by the reading of Hutcheson. The " Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise...Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit," denies the possibility of a mathematical treatment of moral subjects. The essay appeared in the Transactions... | |
 | 1911 - 1090 pages
...however, dealt with a question of philosophical method suggested by the reading of Hutcheson. The " Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise...Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit," denies the possibility of a mathematical treatment of moral subjects. The essay appeared in the Transactions... | |
 | Hugh Chisholm - 1911 - 1090 pages
...however, dealt with a question of philosophical method suggested by the reading of Hutcheson. The " Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise...Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit," denies the possibility of a mathematical treatment of moral subjects. The essay appeared in the Transactions... | |
 | 1911 - 1086 pages
...however, dealt with a question of philosophical method suggested by the reading of Hutcheson. The *' Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise...Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit," denies the possibility of a. mathematical treatment of moral subjects. The essay appeared in the Transactions... | |
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An Essay on Quantity, occasioned by reading a Treatise, in which Simple and Compound Ratios are applied to Virtue and Merit... 
