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" New-Machar, the greater part of his time was spent in the most intense study, more particularly in a careful examination of the laws of external Perception, and of the other principles which form the groundwork of human knowledge. "
The Scots Magazine, Or, General Repository of Literature, History, and Politics - Page 39
1803
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The Scottish Nation: Or The Surnames, Families, Literature ..., Volume 3

William Anderson - 1863 - 800 pages
...rejected him. During his residence at NewMachar, the greater part of his time was spent in intense study, more particularly in a careful examination of the...relaxations were gardening and botany, to both of which pursuits he retained his attachment in old age. In 1740 he married his cousin, Elizabeth, daughter...
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The Scottish Philosophy: Biographical, Expository, Critical, from Hutcheson ...

James McCosh - 1875 - 506 pages
...during his residence at New Machar, the greater part of his time was spent in the most intense study ; more particularly in a careful examination of the...relaxations were gardening and botany, to both of which pursuits he retained his attachment in old age." It was while he was minister, and at the mature age...
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The Scottish Nation: Or, The Surnames, Families, Literature ..., Volume 3

William Anderson - 1867 - 772 pages
...spent in intense study, more particularly in a careful examinatiou of the laws of exterual perceptiou, and of the other principles which form the groundwork...knowledge. His chief relaxations were gardening and hotany, to hoth of which pursuits he retained his attachment in old age. In 1740 he married his cousin,...
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Preliminary Essay on the Intellectual Powers of Man

Thomas Reid - 1884 - 140 pages
...of New Machar, unknown to fame, ho spent the greater part of his time, "in the most intense study; more particularly in a careful examination of the...relaxations were gardening and botany, to both of which pursuits he retained his attachment even in old age." Reid's first publication was an " Essay on Quantity,"...
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Historical and critical

James McCosh - 1887 - 348 pages
...there he was a hard student, and engaged, as his follower and biographer, Dugald Stewart, tells us, in " a careful examination of the laws of external...groundwork of human knowledge," his chief relaxations being gardening and botany. At the mature age of thirty-eight he published, in the Transactions of...
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Historical and critical

James McCosh - 1887 - 346 pages
...there he was a hard student, and engaged, as his follower and biographer, Dugald Stewart, tells us, in " a careful examination of the laws of external...the other principles which form the groundwork of hnman knowledge," his chief relaxations being gardening and botany. At the mature age of thirty-eight...
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The Philosophy of Reid as Contained in the "Inquiry Into the Human Mind on ...

Thomas Reid - 1892 - 390 pages
...here, "the greater part of his time, " says Dugald Stewart, ' ' was spent in the most intense study; more particularly in a careful examination of the...principles which form the groundwork of human knowledge."* In 1748, his first publication appeared. It was in the form of an Essay, published in the " Transactions...
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Philosophical Works

Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton - 1094 pages
...during his residence at New-Machar, the greater part ot his time was spent in the most intense study; analogy, some philosophers draw very important conclusions....equal, so a man cannot possibly determine himself pursuits he retained his attachment even in old age. A paper which he published in the Philosophical...
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