The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 52A. Constable, 1831 |
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Or Critical Journal. away by the action of the sea , we often perceive its layers incur- vated in an extraordinary manner . To account for this incur- vation , the Huttonians have supposed that these rocks were soft- ened by heat ; and ...
Or Critical Journal. away by the action of the sea , we often perceive its layers incur- vated in an extraordinary manner . To account for this incur- vation , the Huttonians have supposed that these rocks were soft- ened by heat ; and ...
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... perceive it to be as impossible for him not to exist , as for twice two not to be equal to four . But , in the first place , we can never attain this knowledge , while our faculties remain in the same state as at present ; and , second ...
... perceive it to be as impossible for him not to exist , as for twice two not to be equal to four . But , in the first place , we can never attain this knowledge , while our faculties remain in the same state as at present ; and , second ...
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... perceive in nature , are to be regarded as the result of the direct volition of the Mind from which they have proceeded . Hence it is impossible not to connect the fact of design with the existence of a designing or contriving mind ; or ...
... perceive in nature , are to be regarded as the result of the direct volition of the Mind from which they have proceeded . Hence it is impossible not to connect the fact of design with the existence of a designing or contriving mind ; or ...
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... perception , ' by which he means the perception of external objects , through the intervention of sensation merely . These are the topics to the developement of which the Preliminary Inquiry ' is exclusively devoted ; and , as the ...
... perception , ' by which he means the perception of external objects , through the intervention of sensation merely . These are the topics to the developement of which the Preliminary Inquiry ' is exclusively devoted ; and , as the ...
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... perception and association , and of the human mind generally . This our author has fully and strikingly illustrated ; and there is no part of his work in which he has been more successful , or which a philosophical reader will peruse ...
... perception and association , and of the human mind generally . This our author has fully and strikingly illustrated ; and there is no part of his work in which he has been more successful , or which a philosophical reader will peruse ...
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Page 373 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Page 231 - How various his employments, whom the world Calls idle ; and who justly, in return, Esteems that busy world an idler too ! Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry...
Page 237 - We conquer'd France, but felt our captive's charms, Her arts victorious triumph'd o'er our arms; Britain to soft refinements less a foe, Wit grew polite, and numbers learn'd to flow. Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine: Tho...
Page 307 - ... the spirit of monopolists is narrow, lazy, and oppressive : their work is more costly and less productive than that of independent artists ; and the new improvements so eagerly grasped by the competition of freedom, are admitted with slow and sullen reluctance in those proud corporations, above the fear of a rival, and below the confession of an error.
Page 204 - Do you disclaim this principle, in order to embrace a more rational opinion, that the perceptions are only representations of something external? You here depart from your natural propensities and more obvious sentiments ; and yet are not able to satisfy your reason, which can never find any convincing argument from experience to prove, that the perceptions are connected with any external objects.
Page 389 - It is experience only which gives authority to human testimony; and it is the same experience which assures us of the laws of nature.
Page 511 - Of the origin of evil no universal solution has been discovered. I mean no solution which reaches to all cases of complaint. — The consideration of general laws, although it may concern the question of the origin of evil very nearly, which I think it does, rests in views disproportionate to our faculties, and in a knowledge which we do not possess. It serves rather to account for the obscurity of the subject, than to supply us with distinct answers to our difficulties.
Page 189 - ... the brain ; but, that he never supposed it to have an existence apart from the mental energy of which it is the object. Locke, he asserts, like Arnauld, considered the idea perceived and the percipient act, to constitute the same indivisible modification of the conscious mind. We shall see. In his language, Locke is, of all philosophers, the most figurative, ambiguous, vacillating, various, and even contradictory...
Page 235 - I pity, from my soul, unhappy men, Compelled by want to prostitute their pen; Who must, like lawyers, either starve or plead, And follow, right or wrong, where guineas lead!
Page 170 - Brown's transmutation of Reid from a natural to a hypothetical realist, as a misconception of the grand and distinctive tenet of a school, by one even of its disciples, is without a parallel in the whole history of philosophy : and this portentous error is prolific; chimeera chimceram par it.