Works, Volume 3G. Bell and sons, 1898 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 54
Page 167
... soul or will of the community , which is the prime mover that governs and directs the whole , be not the legislature ? 591. Supposing the inhabitants of a country quite sunk in sloth , or even fast asleep , whether , upon the gradual ...
... soul or will of the community , which is the prime mover that governs and directs the whole , be not the legislature ? 591. Supposing the inhabitants of a country quite sunk in sloth , or even fast asleep , whether , upon the gradual ...
Page 174
... soul governs the body , men's notions must influence their actions , more or less , as they are stronger or weaker ; and to good or evil , as they are better or worse . Our notions and opinions are a constant check on our appetites ...
... soul governs the body , men's notions must influence their actions , more or less , as they are stronger or weaker ; and to good or evil , as they are better or worse . Our notions and opinions are a constant check on our appetites ...
Page 178
... soul may be as right in his notion as he who hath reasoned himself into that opinion . It will then by no means follow that because this or that notion is a prejudice , it must be therefore false . The not distinguishing between ...
... soul may be as right in his notion as he who hath reasoned himself into that opinion . It will then by no means follow that because this or that notion is a prejudice , it must be therefore false . The not distinguishing between ...
Page 180
... soul be subject to the higher powers ( saith St. Paul ) , for the powers that be are ordained of Though a man's private judgment be a rule to himself , it will not thence follow that he hath any right to set it up for a rule to others ...
... soul be subject to the higher powers ( saith St. Paul ) , for the powers that be are ordained of Though a man's private judgment be a rule to himself , it will not thence follow that he hath any right to set it up for a rule to others ...
Page 202
... soul , not to be accounted for upon mechanical principles • • 233 282 243 , 244 245 251 , 252 , 310 The ancients not ignorant of many things in physics and metaphysics which we think the discovery of modern times Had some advantages ...
... soul , not to be accounted for upon mechanical principles • • 233 282 243 , 244 245 251 , 252 , 310 The ancients not ignorant of many things in physics and metaphysics which we think the discovery of modern times Had some advantages ...
Common terms and phrases
abscissa acid admitted æther Analyst animal answer Aristotle balsam Berkeley Berkeley's better bodies cause circulation Cloyne commerce conceive consequently considered cure demonstration distemper diuretic Divine doctrine of fluxions doth drink Dublin Edited effect England equal error evanescent expression fevers finite quantities fire flowing quantities foreign geometry hath human increments industry infidels infinitely small infinitesimal Ireland isochronal kingdom labour less light manufactures mathematicians mathematics medicine method method of fluxions mind momentum motion nascent national bank nature nevertheless obscure observed opinion particles phænomena philosophers Plato Plotinus prejudices principles produce proportion reader reason rectangle religion saith salts scurvy sect sense shew similar triangles Sir Isaac Newton sophism soul spirit subducted subtangent supposed supposition tar-water Theophrastus thereof things third fluxions tion trade Translated triangle true truth vegetable velocities virtue vols Walton wealth whence wherein whole
Popular passages
Page 388 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 390 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.