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... solid , no less useful than what has fallen to their lot , in the admired plenty and sufficiency of their own little spot , which to them contains whatsoever is good in the universe . * Those • If not depraved from good , created all ...
... solid , no less useful than what has fallen to their lot , in the admired plenty and sufficiency of their own little spot , which to them contains whatsoever is good in the universe . * Those • If not depraved from good , created all ...
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... solid metaphysicians ; nobody will deem the quickest - sighted amongst them to have very enlarged views in ethics or politics ; nor can any one allow the most capable amongst them to be advanced so far in his understanding as to have ...
... solid metaphysicians ; nobody will deem the quickest - sighted amongst them to have very enlarged views in ethics or politics ; nor can any one allow the most capable amongst them to be advanced so far in his understanding as to have ...
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... solid or sandy , the mind must have some foundation to rest itself upon , and , as I have remarked in another place , it no sooner entertains any proposition but it presently hastens to some hypothesis to bottom it on ; till then it is ...
... solid or sandy , the mind must have some foundation to rest itself upon , and , as I have remarked in another place , it no sooner entertains any proposition but it presently hastens to some hypothesis to bottom it on ; till then it is ...
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... solid : and what is all this but childish , shameful , sense- less credulity ? In these two things , viz . , an equal indifferency for all truth -I mean the receiving it , the love of it , as truth , but not loving it for any other ...
... solid : and what is all this but childish , shameful , sense- less credulity ? In these two things , viz . , an equal indifferency for all truth -I mean the receiving it , the love of it , as truth , but not loving it for any other ...
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... solid and true knowledge . This I think I may be permitted to say , that there is no part wherein the understanding needs a more care- * This is a very imperfect definition of criticism , applying only to one of the meanest of its ...
... solid and true knowledge . This I think I may be permitted to say , that there is no part wherein the understanding needs a more care- * This is a very imperfect definition of criticism , applying only to one of the meanest of its ...
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Seite 271 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Seite 242 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all, but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Seite 206 - Our observation employed either, about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the MATERIALS of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring.
Seite 315 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Seite 133 - It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. It is well he knows that it is long enough to reach the bottom, at such places as are necessary to direct his voyage, and caution him against running upon shoals that may ruin him. Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.
Seite 490 - Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report ; if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things.
Seite 178 - He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, 'Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire.' "And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, 'Deliver me; for thou art my god.
Seite 99 - I cannot tell, this same truth is a naked and open daylight that doth not show the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world half so stately and daintily as candlelights. Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle that showeth best in varied lights.
Seite 99 - And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and...
Seite 118 - ... on a subject very remote from this, found themselves quickly at a stand, by the difficulties that rose on every side. After we had a while puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it came into my thoughts that we took a wrong course, and that, before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that nature, it was necessary to examine our own abilities, and see what objects our understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with.