Memoirs of the life and writings of ... Henry Home of Kames [by A.F. Tytler]. |
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... possession of her faculties , and of the esteem of all who knew her . + For a further account of Principal Baillie , see Appendix , No. I. , among the notices of Scotsmen eminent for literature , in the period from the end of the ...
... possession of her faculties , and of the esteem of all who knew her . + For a further account of Principal Baillie , see Appendix , No. I. , among the notices of Scotsmen eminent for literature , in the period from the end of the ...
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... possession of a competence in early life is very far from being an advantage . In the annals , both of science and literature , and the departments of professional employment , small is the proportion of those eminent men on whom for ...
... possession of a competence in early life is very far from being an advantage . In the annals , both of science and literature , and the departments of professional employment , small is the proportion of those eminent men on whom for ...
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... of verbal commentators , affords a pretty certain presumption , that he possessed but in a moderate degree that knowledge which he so much undervalued . It It must indeed be allowed , that a taste for 4 MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE.
... of verbal commentators , affords a pretty certain presumption , that he possessed but in a moderate degree that knowledge which he so much undervalued . It It must indeed be allowed , that a taste for 4 MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE.
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... possessed a much more extensive acquaintance with the foreign commentators on the Roman law , and with the writers on the public law of Europe , than seems to have been thought necessary by their successors to accomplish them for the ...
... possessed a much more extensive acquaintance with the foreign commentators on the Roman law , and with the writers on the public law of Europe , than seems to have been thought necessary by their successors to accomplish them for the ...
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... possessed that ardour in the search of truth , which never stops in its pursuit , till it believes the object attained . Hence all his researches terminate in what the inquirer be- lieved to be a demonstration , or at least a proof so ...
... possessed that ardour in the search of truth , which never stops in its pursuit , till it believes the object attained . Hence all his researches terminate in what the inquirer be- lieved to be a demonstration , or at least a proof so ...
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Page 100 - The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
Page 100 - Most fortunately it happens that, since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression of my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when, after three or four hours...
Page 305 - But I will punish home: No, I will weep no more. In such a night To shut me out! Pour on; I will endure. In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril! Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all, — O! that way madness lies; let me shun that; No more of that.
Page 97 - I run into the crowd for shelter and warmth, but cannot prevail with myself to mix with such deformity. I call upon others to join me, in order to make a company apart, but no one will hearken to me.
Page 76 - But now the question follows, what punishment can human laws inflict on one who has withdrawn himself from their reach? They can only act upon what he has left behind him, his reputation and fortune: on the former, by an ignominious burial in the highway, with a stake driven through his body; on...
Page 306 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these?
Page 295 - There is a flutter or hurry of thought which attends the first perusal of any piece, and which confounds the genuine sentiment of beauty. The relation of the parts is not discerned : The true characters of style are little distinguished. The several perfections and defects seem wrapped up in a species of confusion, and present themselves indistinctly to the imagination.
Page 180 - ... cum prorepserunt primis animalia terris, mutum et turpe pecus, glandem atque cubilia propter unguibus et pugnis, dein fustibus atque ita porro pugnabant armis, quae post fabricaverat usus...
Page 327 - Work, on the one hand, to exhibit, he does not say, a correct map, but a tolerable sketch of the human mind ; and, aided by the lights which the Poet and the Orator so amply furnish, to disclose its secret movements, tracing its principal channels of perception and action, as near as possible, to their source : and, on the other hand, from the science of human nature, to ascertain with greater precision, the radical principles of that art, whose object it is, by the use of language, to operate on...
Page 264 - No one can more sincerely rejoice than I do on the reduction of Canada, and this is not merely as I am a Colonist but as I am a Briton. I have long been of opinion that the foundations of the future grandeur and stability of the British Empire lie in America; and though, like other foundations, they are low and little now, they are nevertheless broad and strong enough to support the greatest political structure that human wisdom ever yet erected.