The Edinburgh Review, Volume 85Leonard Scott Publication Company, 1847 - English literature |
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... friends to come and see him , in our New Town , ' and challenged a comparison with any thing they had seen in any part of the world . An im- proving agriculture , a rapidly extending trade , and good paro- chial schools , were ...
... friends to come and see him , in our New Town , ' and challenged a comparison with any thing they had seen in any part of the world . An im- proving agriculture , a rapidly extending trade , and good paro- chial schools , were ...
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... friends and credit , if his father would only let him wear it without disguise , ) Hume had left his nephew an embarrassing bequest ; this was the Dialogues on Natural Religion . ' As far back as 1753 , he had been prevailed upon ...
... friends and credit , if his father would only let him wear it without disguise , ) Hume had left his nephew an embarrassing bequest ; this was the Dialogues on Natural Religion . ' As far back as 1753 , he had been prevailed upon ...
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... friends were frequently the object , and which , they all agreed , contributed to endear his society to them fully as much as any of his great and amiable qualities . Hume's conversation , whether spoken or written , lay far beyond the ...
... friends were frequently the object , and which , they all agreed , contributed to endear his society to them fully as much as any of his great and amiable qualities . Hume's conversation , whether spoken or written , lay far beyond the ...
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... friend to doubts , dis- ' putes , and novelties : ' Since his patronymic had no sooner come into his hands , than he chose to , what he called , restore its ancient spelling . His friends , Henry Home , and his cousin John , both stood ...
... friend to doubts , dis- ' putes , and novelties : ' Since his patronymic had no sooner come into his hands , than he chose to , what he called , restore its ancient spelling . His friends , Henry Home , and his cousin John , both stood ...
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... friends . But the penalty of self - pleasing was not long delayed . Soli- tude , over - excitement , and over - reading brought on a violent reaction . After struggling in vain against it for three or four years , change of scene became ...
... friends . But the penalty of self - pleasing was not long delayed . Soli- tude , over - excitement , and over - reading brought on a violent reaction . After struggling in vain against it for three or four years , change of scene became ...
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Page 71 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge...
Page 71 - ... a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 71 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit...
Page 7 - Upon examination of these, I found a certain boldness of temper growing in me, which was not inclined to submit to any authority in these subjects, but led me to seek out some new medium, by which truth might be established. After much study and reflection on this, at last, when I was about eighteen years of age, there seemed to be opened up to me a new scene of thought, which transported me beyond measure, and made me, with an ardour natural 1o young men, throw up every other pleasure or business...
Page 69 - Did ever one make it a point of honour to speak truth to children or madmen ? If the thing were worthy being treated gravely, I should tell him that the Pythian oracle, with the approbation of Xenophon, advised every one to worship the Gods vo/*ai no\t<ut.
Page 200 - Il est injuste qu'on s'attache à moi, quoiqu'on le fasse avec plaisir et volontairement. Je tromperais ceux à qui j'en ferais naître le désir, car je ne suis la fin de personne, et n'ai pas de quoi les satisfaire.
Page 7 - You must know, then, that from my earliest infancy I found always a strong inclination to books and letters. As our college education in Scotland, extending little further than the languages, ends commonly when we are about fourteen or fifteen years of age, I was after that left to my own choice in my reading, and found it incline me almost equally to books of reasoning and philosophy, and to poetry and the polite authors. Every one who is acquainted either with the philosophers or critics knows...
Page 213 - ... of this or that conclusion, — there may yet be, from one or other of the disturbing causes adverted to, a momentary eclipse of that light in which the soul seemed to dwell ; — a momentary vibration of that judgment which we so often flattered ourselves was poised for ever. Yet this no more argues the want of habitual faith than the variations of the compass argue the severance of the connection between the magnet and the pole ; or, than the oscillations of the ' rocking stone' argue that...
Page 191 - who frame antitheses by forcing the sense, are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make just figures.
Page 447 - ... („England's Treasure by Foreign Trade. Or the Balance of our Foreign Trade is the Rule of our Treasure.