The Works of Dugald Stewart: Dissertation exhibiting a general view of the progress of metaphysical, ethical and political philosophy, since the revival of letters in EuropeHilliard and Brown, 1829 |
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... Madame de Staël's interesting and eloquent review of German philosophy bears marks of a haste and precipitation with which her criticisms are seldom chargeable : " Les opinions de Leibnitz tendent surtout au perfectionne- ment moral , s ...
... Madame de Staël's interesting and eloquent review of German philosophy bears marks of a haste and precipitation with which her criticisms are seldom chargeable : " Les opinions de Leibnitz tendent surtout au perfectionne- ment moral , s ...
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... Madame de Staël mentions Lessing , Hemsterhuis , and Jacobi , as precursors of Kant in his philosophical career . She adds , however , that they had no school , since none of them attempted to found any system ; but they began the war ...
... Madame de Staël mentions Lessing , Hemsterhuis , and Jacobi , as precursors of Kant in his philosophical career . She adds , however , that they had no school , since none of them attempted to found any system ; but they began the war ...
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... Madame de Staël ) * " as having given the impulse to all that has been since done in Germany , both in literature and in philosophy . " ( Allemagne , Vol . III . pp . 68 , 69. ) " At the epoch when this work was published , " con ...
... Madame de Staël ) * " as having given the impulse to all that has been since done in Germany , both in literature and in philosophy . " ( Allemagne , Vol . III . pp . 68 , 69. ) " At the epoch when this work was published , " con ...
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... Madame de Staël has only followed Leibnitz , and a very large proportion of the German philosophers of the present day . " The philosophy of sensation , " says Frederick Schlegel , " which was unconscious- ly bequeathed to the world by ...
... Madame de Staël has only followed Leibnitz , and a very large proportion of the German philosophers of the present day . " The philosophy of sensation , " says Frederick Schlegel , " which was unconscious- ly bequeathed to the world by ...
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... Madame de Staël . I quote the passage , as it enters into some historical details which she has omitted , and de- scribes more explicitly than she has done one of the most important steps , which Kant is supposed by his disciples to ...
... Madame de Staël . I quote the passage , as it enters into some historical details which she has omitted , and de- scribes more explicitly than she has done one of the most important steps , which Kant is supposed by his disciples to ...
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Página 474 - And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you ; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Página 308 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Página 416 - SINCE the mind, in all its thoughts and reasonings, hath no other immediate object but its own ideas, which it alone does or can contemplate ; it is evident, that our knowledge is only conversant about them.
Página 389 - Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinction, as even to excite a murmur among the zealots.
Página 195 - Were it fit to trouble thee with the history of this Essay, I should tell thee, that five or six friends meeting at my chamber, and discoursing on a subject very remote from this, found themselves quickly at a stand, by the difficulties that rose on every side.
Página 400 - ... all our reasonings concerning causes and effects are derived from nothing but custom, and that belief is more properly an act of the sensitive than of the cogitative part of our natures.
Página 445 - His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Página 445 - Yet there happened, in my time, one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare, or pass by, a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.
Página 211 - The understanding seems to me not to have the least glimmering of any ideas which it doth not receive from one of these two. External objects furnish the mind with the ideas of sensible qualities, which are all those different perceptions they produce in us; and the mind furnishes the understanding with ideas of its own operations.
Página 209 - Let the ideas of being and matter be strongly joined, either by education or much thought; whilst these are still combined in the mind, what notions, what reasonings, will there be about separate spirits? Let custom from the very childhood have joined figure and shape to the idea of God, and what absurdities will that mind be liable to about the Deity?