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... supposed scarlet was like the sound " of a trumpet , it proved he had been told that scarlet was the most vivid of " colours , but showed he had not otherwise an idea of it . " - Thoughts on Tragedy , by Lord Orford . See his Works ...
... supposed scarlet was like the sound " of a trumpet , it proved he had been told that scarlet was the most vivid of " colours , but showed he had not otherwise an idea of it . " - Thoughts on Tragedy , by Lord Orford . See his Works ...
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... any object of hearing . The mechanism of the organs by which these names * are pronounced , is supposed to have some analogy 66 [ chap . 1 . ELEMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY continued, -Miscellaneous Observations on Language,
... any object of hearing . The mechanism of the organs by which these names * are pronounced , is supposed to have some analogy 66 [ chap . 1 . ELEMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY continued, -Miscellaneous Observations on Language,
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Dugald Stewart. * are pronounced , is supposed to have some analogy to the qua- lities by which the objects they denote are more peculiarly distinguished ; and this trifling circumstance has been pre- sumed sufficient to decide the ...
Dugald Stewart. * are pronounced , is supposed to have some analogy to the qua- lities by which the objects they denote are more peculiarly distinguished ; and this trifling circumstance has been pre- sumed sufficient to decide the ...
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... supposed that the table - talk of the monks turned frequently on the specimens before them of their cook's skill in the culinary art ; on which occasions they would find it absolutely necessary to supply the poverty of classical ...
... supposed that the table - talk of the monks turned frequently on the specimens before them of their cook's skill in the culinary art ; on which occasions they would find it absolutely necessary to supply the poverty of classical ...
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... excepting those by the late Reverend Alexander Geddes , a learned , though not very orthodox , clergyman of the Roman Catholic church . " most of whom are supposed to have flourished in sect . VI . ] 79 OF THE HUMAN MIND .
... excepting those by the late Reverend Alexander Geddes , a learned , though not very orthodox , clergyman of the Roman Catholic church . " most of whom are supposed to have flourished in sect . VI . ] 79 OF THE HUMAN MIND .
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Página 213 - ... shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find dif-ferences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores: if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases:...
Página 213 - Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores.
Página 239 - Paper, it seems the immediate Direction of Providence, and such an Operation of the supreme Being, as that which determines all the Portions of Matter to their proper Centres.
Página 54 - ... we oftentimes find a disease quite strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever in a few days calcine all those images to dust and confusion, which seemed to be as lasting as if graved in marble.
Página 208 - In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, and frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar — if hungry, dry, cold, wet or sick...
Página 150 - Doctum imitatorem, et vivas hinc ducere voces. Interdum speciosa locis morataque recte Fabula, nullius veneris, sine pondere et arte, Valdius oblectat populum, meliusque moratur, Quam versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.
Página 173 - I would go fifty miles on foot, for I have not a horse worth riding on, to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author's hands, be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore.
Página 379 - When a body is once in motion, it moveth, unless something else hinder it, eternally; and whatsoever hindreth it, cannot in an instant, but in time, and by degrees, quite extinguish it; and as we see in the water, though the wind cease, the waves give not over rolling for a long time after: so also it happeneth in that motion, which is made in the internal parts of a man, then, when he sees, dreams, &c.
Página 211 - En vérité, dit-elle, il faut un peu entre amis laisser « trotter les plumes comme elles veulent : la mienne a toujours
Página 54 - The memory of some men, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle ; but yet there seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive; so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kinds of objects which at first occasioned them, the print wears out, and at last there remains nothing to be seen.