The Edinburgh Review, Volume 85Leonard Scott Publication Company, 1847 - English literature |
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... reason and understanding . His spirits sank lower and lower . He sought for refuge in peevish reflections on the vanity of the world , and of all human glory - sentiments which he found could never be sincere , except in those who were ...
... reason and understanding . His spirits sank lower and lower . He sought for refuge in peevish reflections on the vanity of the world , and of all human glory - sentiments which he found could never be sincere , except in those who were ...
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... reason . He thought the second volume of the Stuarts much inferior to the first ; at least , he says so : and he accounted for it by the infinite disgust and reluctance ' with which , after a long interval , he had returned to it . The ...
... reason . He thought the second volume of the Stuarts much inferior to the first ; at least , he says so : and he accounted for it by the infinite disgust and reluctance ' with which , after a long interval , he had returned to it . The ...
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... reason for believing that metaphysical specu- lations were more truly congenial to his nature , and therefore contributed more to his intellectual happiness , than historical reasoning or research . Hume , when a young man , had been ...
... reason for believing that metaphysical specu- lations were more truly congenial to his nature , and therefore contributed more to his intellectual happiness , than historical reasoning or research . Hume , when a young man , had been ...
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... reason had been always excluded , and generally manners . But he could not be indifferent to the controversial spirit , when it followed him into private life . He was natural and free - spoken to a fault ; while his scepticism was so ...
... reason had been always excluded , and generally manners . But he could not be indifferent to the controversial spirit , when it followed him into private life . He was natural and free - spoken to a fault ; while his scepticism was so ...
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... reason for supposing that he was again in Eng- land , except passing through with General Sinclair , until 1758 . In this year , however , he did come to London , in execution of the purpose he had announced to Dr Clephane ; he took ...
... reason for supposing that he was again in Eng- land , except passing through with General Sinclair , until 1758 . In this year , however , he did come to London , in execution of the purpose he had announced to Dr Clephane ; he took ...
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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.