Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, Band 2A. Millar, 1756 |
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David Hume. most striking obfervations and instances from com mon life ; place oppofite characters in a proper con- traft ; and alluring us into the paths of virtue , by the views of glory and happiness , direct our steps in thefe paths ...
David Hume. most striking obfervations and instances from com mon life ; place oppofite characters in a proper con- traft ; and alluring us into the paths of virtue , by the views of glory and happiness , direct our steps in thefe paths ...
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... character which is commonly but little acceptable in the world , as be- ing fuppos'd to contribute nothing either to the ad- vantage or pleasure of fociety ; while he lives remote from communication with mankind , and is wrapt up in ...
... character which is commonly but little acceptable in the world , as be- ing fuppos'd to contribute nothing either to the ad- vantage or pleasure of fociety ; while he lives remote from communication with mankind , and is wrapt up in ...
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... characters in a proper con- traft ; and alluring us into the paths of virtue , by the views of glory and happiness , direct our fteps in these paths , by the foundeft precepts and moft il- luftrious examples . They make us feel the ...
... characters in a proper con- traft ; and alluring us into the paths of virtue , by the views of glory and happiness , direct our fteps in these paths , by the foundeft precepts and moft il- luftrious examples . They make us feel the ...
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... character which is commonly but little acceptable in the world , as be- ing fuppos'd to contribute nothing either to the ad- vantage or pleasure of fociety ; while he lives remote from communication with mankind , and is wrapt up in ...
... character which is commonly but little acceptable in the world , as be- ing fuppos'd to contribute nothing either to the ad- vantage or pleasure of fociety ; while he lives remote from communication with mankind , and is wrapt up in ...
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... characters , without much forwarding the main action . The double plots of Terence are licences of the fame kind ; but in a lefs degree . And tho ' this conduct be not perfectly regular , it is not wholly unfuitable to the nature of ...
... characters , without much forwarding the main action . The double plots of Terence are licences of the fame kind ; but in a lefs degree . And tho ' this conduct be not perfectly regular , it is not wholly unfuitable to the nature of ...
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Seite 164 - ... and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves ; of such undoubted integrity as to place them beyond all suspicion of any design to deceive others ; of such credit and reputation in the eyes of mankind as to have a great deal to lose in case of...
Seite 159 - But when the fact attested is such a one as has seldom fallen under our observation, here is a contest of two opposite experiences, of which the one destroys the other as far as its force goes ; and the superior can only operate on the mind by the force which remains.
Seite 67 - Where the picture bears him no resemblance, at least was not intended for him, it never so much as conveys our thought to him: and where it is absent, as well as the person, though the mind may pass from the thought of the one to that of the other, it feels its idea to be rather weakened than enlivened by that transition. We take a pleasure in viewing the picture of a friend, when...
Seite 138 - The ultimate Author of all our volitions is the Creator of the world, who first bestowed motion on this immense machine, and placed all beings in that particular position, whence every subsequent event, by an inevitable necessity, must result. Human actions, therefore, either can have no moral turpitude at all...
Seite 91 - ... by which the one is able to operate, in so many instances, upon the other. Secondly, we are not able to move all the organs of the body with a like authority, though we cannot assign any reason besides experience for so remarkable a difference between one and the other. Why has the will an influence over the tongue and fingers, not over the heart or liver?
Seite 168 - Prodigies, omens, oracles, judgments, quite obscure the few natural events that are intermingled with them. But as the former grow thinner every page, in proportion as we advance nearer the enlightened ages, we soon learn that there is nothing mysterious or supernatural in the case, but that all proceeds from the usual propensity of mankind towards the...
Seite 219 - It is universally allowed by modern enquirers that all the sensible qualities of objects, such as hard, soft, hot, cold, white, black, etc., are merely secondary, and exist not in the objects themselves, but are perceptions of the mind, without any external archetype or model which they represent. If this be allowed with regard to secondary qualities, it must also follow with regard to the supposed primary qualities of extension and solidity ; nor can the latter be any more entitled to that denomination...
Seite 102 - Were our ignorance, therefore, a good reason for rejecting any thing, we should be led into that principle of denying all energy in the Supreme Being as much as in the grossest matter. We surely comprehend as little the operations of one as of the other. Is it more difficult to conceive that motion may arise from impulse than that it may arise from volition? All we know is our profound ignorance in both cases.
Seite 216 - These are the obvious dictates of reason; and no man who reflects ever doubted that the existences which we consider when we say this house and that tree are nothing but perceptions in the mind and fleeting copies or representations of other existences which remain uniform and independent.
Seite 216 - And to justify this pretended philosophical system by a chain of clear and convincing argument, or even any appearance of argument, exceeds the power of all human capacity.