The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: Translations of the passages in foreign languages contained in the collected works of Dugald Stewart. With general index. 1860T. Constable and Company, 1877 |
Other editions - View all
Translations of the passages in foreign languages contained in the collected ... Dugald Stewart No preview available - 1971 |
Translations of the passages in foreign languages contained in the collected ... Dugald Stewart No preview available - 1971 |
Translations of the passages in foreign languages contained in the collected ... Dugald Stewart No preview available - 1971 |
Common terms and phrases
according Adam Smith adduced analogy ancient animal appear Aristotle atheism axioms Bacon Beauty believe body called Cicero colour common Condillac connexion constitutes D'Alembert demonstration Descartes Divine doctrine Dugald Stewart effect ence Epicurus error eternal existence experience expression faculty favour Final Causes genius Greek habit honourable human hypothesis ideas imagination induction influence innate ideas instinct judgment knowledge labour language laws learned Leibnitz liberty Locke logic Lucretius Malebranche mathematical matter means memory ment merits metaphysical mind mode Moral motion nature Nominalists objects observed opinion origin perceive perception perfect phenomena philosophy physical Plato pleasure Polybius possess praise principle propositions quoted in regard reason referred Reid resemblance sensation sense sophisms soul speak species sublime suppose syllogism taste term theory things thought tical tion touching treatise true truth universe Usury viii Virgil virtue Voltaire Volume whole word
Popular passages
Page 79 - ... 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 79 - ... for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
Page 78 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite : sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession...
Page 302 - DO not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.
Page 7 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it...
Page 8 - Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence...
Page 130 - For to say that the hairs of the eye-lids are for a quickset and fence about the sight ; or that the firmness of the skins and hides of living creatures is to defend them from the extremities of heat or cold ; or that the bones are for the columns or beams, whereupon the frames of the bodies of living creatures are built...
Page 130 - Not because those final causes are not true, and worthy to be inquired, being kept within their own province ; but because their excursions into the limits of physical causes hath bred a vastness and solitude in that track.
Page 114 - But it is manifest that Plato, in his opinion of ideas, as one that had a wit of elevation situate as upon a cliff, did descry that forms were the true object of knowledge...
Page 130 - ... and the like, is well inquired and collected in metaphysic ; but in physic they are impertinent. Nay, they are indeed but remoras and hinderances to stay and slug the ship from further sailing; and have brought this to pass, that the search of the physical causes hath been neglected, and passed in silence.