Sketches of the History of Man ...: In Four Volumes ...W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, and W. Creech, 1778 |
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... probability that a greater number of children are born in Paris than in London ; and confequently , that the former requires fewer recruits from the country , than the latter . In Paris , domeftic fervants are en- couraged to marry ...
... probability that a greater number of children are born in Paris than in London ; and confequently , that the former requires fewer recruits from the country , than the latter . In Paris , domeftic fervants are en- couraged to marry ...
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... probability , that the continent of America fouth of the ri- ver St Laurence was not peopled from A- fia . Labrador on the north fide of that river , is thin of inhabitants ; no people having been difcovered there but the Ef- * The ...
... probability , that the continent of America fouth of the ri- ver St Laurence was not peopled from A- fia . Labrador on the north fide of that river , is thin of inhabitants ; no people having been difcovered there but the Ef- * The ...
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... probability , that any other people more remote would , with- out neceffity , wander far from home to people Canada or any country farther fouth . But we are fcarce left to a con- jecture . The copper colour of the Cana- dians , their ...
... probability , that any other people more remote would , with- out neceffity , wander far from home to people Canada or any country farther fouth . But we are fcarce left to a con- jecture . The copper colour of the Cana- dians , their ...
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... probability , that it ever has been joined to any other land . Here a local creation , if it may be termed fo , appears unavoidable ; and if we must admit more than one act of creation , even the appear- ance of difficulty , from ...
... probability , that it ever has been joined to any other land . Here a local creation , if it may be termed fo , appears unavoidable ; and if we must admit more than one act of creation , even the appear- ance of difficulty , from ...
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... probability be improved into a certainty , the conviction of a fupreme Deity who rules with equity and mildness , will be a fource of conftant enjoyment , which I boldly fet above the titillating pleafures of external fenfe . Poffibly ...
... probability be improved into a certainty , the conviction of a fupreme Deity who rules with equity and mildness , will be a fource of conftant enjoyment , which I boldly fet above the titillating pleafures of external fenfe . Poffibly ...
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Seite 280 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Seite 323 - Locke, that nominal eflences only, which are the .creatures of our own minds, are perfectly comprehended by us, or can be properly defined ; and even of thefe there are many too fimple in their nature to admit of definition. When we cannot give precifion to our notions by a definition, we muft endeavour to do it by attentive reflection upon them, by obferving minutely their agreements and differences, and efpecially by a right underftanding of the powers of our own minds, by which fuch notions are...
Seite 394 - ... reafoning of his antagonift. • Our reafoning power makes no appearance in infancy, but, as we grow up, it unfolds itfelf by degrees like the bud of a .tree. When a child firft draws an inference, or perceives the force of an inference drawn by another, we may call this the birth of his reafon : but it is yet like a newborn babe, weak and tender ; it muft be cherifhed, carried in arms, and have food of eafy digeftion, till it gather ftrength.
Seite 366 - This is a principle of undoubted certainty indeed, but of no great depth.
Seite 330 - The fame example may ferve to fhew, that it is fometimes difficult to fay, whether a propofition be univerfal or particular. 4. The quality of fome propofitions is fo dubious, that logicians have never been able to agree whether they be affirmative or negative ; as in this propofition, Whatever is infentient is not an animal.
Seite 327 - Hence it is eafy to diftinguifh the thing affirmed or denied, which is called the predicate, from the thing of which it is affirmed or denied, which is called the fubject ; and thefe two are called the terms of the propofition.
Seite 319 - I think it muft be allowed, that in things which need definition and admit of it, his definitions are commonly judicious and accurate ; and had he attempted to define fuch things only, his enemies had wanted great matter of triumph. I believe it may likewife be faid in his favour, that until Locke's efTay was wrote, there was nothing of importance delivered by philofophers with regard to definition, beyond what Ariftotle has faid upon that fubject.
Seite 392 - Its profefled end is, to teach men to think, to judge, and to reafon, with precifion and accuracy. No man will fay that this is a matter of no importance ; the only thing therefore that admits of doubt, is, whether it can be taught. To...
Seite 408 - Many things were assumed under that character without a just title : that nature abhors a vacuum ; that bodies do not gravitate in their proper place ; that the heavenly bodies undergo no change ; that they move in perfect circles, and with an equable motion.
Seite 361 - ... both of the force of the reasoning power in man, and of the art of syllogism as its guide. Mere reasoning can carry us but a very little way in most subjects. By observation, and experiments properly conducted, the stock of human knowledge may be enlarged without end ; but the power of reasoning alone, applied with vigour through a long life, would only carry a man round, like a, horse in a mill who labours hard but makes no progress.