An enquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An enquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religionT. Cadell, in the Strand: and A. Kincaid, and A. Donaldson, at Edinburgh., 1772 |
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... greater forefight and subtilty , in the fubdividing and balancing of power ; the lawyer more method and finer principles in his reasonings ; and the general more regularity in his difcipline , and more caution in his plans and ...
... greater forefight and subtilty , in the fubdividing and balancing of power ; the lawyer more method and finer principles in his reasonings ; and the general more regularity in his difcipline , and more caution in his plans and ...
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... greater accuracy , and more ardent application may bring thefe fciences ftill nearer their perfection . To throw up at once all pre- tenfions of this kind may juftly be deemed more rash , precipitate , and dogmatical , than even the ...
... greater accuracy , and more ardent application may bring thefe fciences ftill nearer their perfection . To throw up at once all pre- tenfions of this kind may juftly be deemed more rash , precipitate , and dogmatical , than even the ...
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... greater diftance in that place between the contiguous colours than in any other . Now I afk , whether it be poffible for him , from his own imagination , to supply this deficiency , and raise up to himself the idea of that C 3 ...
... greater diftance in that place between the contiguous colours than in any other . Now I afk , whether it be poffible for him , from his own imagination , to supply this deficiency , and raise up to himself the idea of that C 3 ...
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... greater detail than in the HENRIADE ; where the events are run over with fuch rapidity , that we fcarcely have leisure to become acquainted with the scene or action . Were a poet , therefore , to comprehend in his fubject , any great ...
... greater detail than in the HENRIADE ; where the events are run over with fuch rapidity , that we fcarcely have leisure to become acquainted with the scene or action . Were a poet , therefore , to comprehend in his fubject , any great ...
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... greater fimplicity , and to refolve the many particular effects into a few general caufes , by means of reasonings from analogy , experience , and obfervation . But as to the causes of these general causes , we should in vain at- tempt ...
... greater fimplicity , and to refolve the many particular effects into a few general caufes , by means of reasonings from analogy , experience , and obfervation . But as to the causes of these general causes , we should in vain at- tempt ...
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Seite 76 - When we look about us towards external objects, and consider the operation of causes, we are never able, in a single instance, to discover any power or necessary connexion ; any quality, which binds the effect to the cause, and renders the one an infallible consequence of the other. We only find, that the one does actually, in fact, follow the other.
Seite 57 - Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.
Seite 57 - Without the influence of custom, we should be entirely ignorant of every matter of fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses. We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of any effect. There would be an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation.
Seite 148 - So that, upon the whole, we may conclude that the Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity. And whoever is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most...
Seite 67 - Here, then, is a kind of preestablished harmony between the course of nature and the succession of our ideas ; and though the powers and forces by which the former is governed, be wholly unknown to us, yet our thoughts and conceptions have still, we find, gone on in the same train with the other works of nature.
Seite 175 - But another man, who never took the pains to observe the demonstration, hearing a mathematician, a man of credit, affirm the three angles of a triangle to be equal to two right ones, assents to it, ie receives it for true.
Seite 171 - By what argument can it be proved, that the perceptions of the mind must be caused by external objects, entirely different from them, though resembling them (if that be possible), and could not arise either from the energy of the mind itself, or from the suggestion of some invisible and unknown spirit, or from some other cause still more unknown to us...
Seite 40 - ... ball return in a straight line, or leap off from the second in any line or direction ? All these suppositions are consistent and conceivable. Why then should we give the preference to one, which is no more consistent or conceivable than the rest ? All our reasonings a priori will never be able to show us any foundation for this preference.
Seite 47 - ... all our experimental conclusions proceed upon the supposition, that the future will be conformable to the past. To endeavour, therefore, the proof of this last supposition by probable arguments, or arguments regarding existence, must be evidently going in a circle, and taking that for granted, which is the very point in question.
Seite 75 - Complex ideas may, perhaps, be well known by definition, which is nothing but an enumeration of those parts or simple ideas, that compose them.