 | 1854 - 474 pages
...organ of sight. I have here supposed that my reader is acquainted with that great modern discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged by all...as apprehended by the imagination, are only ideas iu the mind, and not qualities that have any existence in matter. .As this is a truth which has been... | |
 | 1856 - 408 pages
...organ of sight. I have here supposed that my reader is acquainted with that great modern discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged -by all...mind, and not qualities that have any existence in manner. As this is a truth which has been proved incontestably by many modern philosophers, and is,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 542 pages
...organ of sight. \ I have here supposed that my reader is acquainted with that great modern discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged by all...the inquirers into natural philosophy : namely, that Ijgbt-and colours, as apprehended by the imagination, are only ideas in the mind, and not qualities... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1858 - 216 pages
...their misery. I have here supposed that the reader is acquainted with that great modern discovery, which is, at present, universally acknowledged by all the inquirers into natural philosophy. There are few words in the English language which are employed in a more loose and uncircuraseribed... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1866 - 654 pages
...is possible. ' I have here supposed, that my reader is acquainted with that great modern discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged by all the inquirers into natural philosophy: nami-ly, that light and colours, as apprehended by the imagination, are only ideas in the mind, and... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1867 - 224 pages
...their misery. I have here supposed that the reader is acquainted with that great modern discovery, which is, at present, universally acknowledged by all the inquirers into natural philosophy. There are few words in the English language which are employed in a more loose and uncircumscribed... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1889 - 556 pages
...organ of sight. I have here supposed that my reader is acquainted with that great modern discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged by all...inquirers into natural philosophy : namely, .that, light nni\ pnlmira aa nppreViffflflpd by the imagination. are only ideq.s in, the mind, and not qualities... | |
 | University of Wisconsin - 1922 - 300 pages
...with that great Modern Discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged by all the enquirers into Natural Philosophy; namely, that Light and Colours,...that have any Existence in Matter. As this is a Truth that has been proved incontestably by many Modern Philosophers, and is indeed one of the finest Speculations... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - 420 pages
...poet entertained 'that great modern discovery,' as Addison called it, 'that lights and colours . . . are only ideas in the mind, and not qualities that have any existence in matter,' he was usually inspired, like Addison, to praise not his own excellence, but the foresight and bounty... | |
 | Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton - 1094 pages
...thus of it : — " I have here supposed that my reader is acquainted with that great modern discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged by all...in matter. As this is a truth which has been proved incontest.ibly by many modern philosophers, and is, indeed, one of the finest speculations in that... | |
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I have here supposed that my reader is acquainted with that great modern discovery, which is at present universally acknowledged -by all the inquirers into natural philosophy : namely, that light and colours, as apprehended by the imagination, are only... 
