Outlines of Analogical Philosophy: Being a Primary View of the Principles, Relations and Purposes of Nature, Science, and Art, Volume 2Charles Tilt, Fleet Street., 1839 - 490 pages |
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... ground , draws the whole nourishment of the root , and by a single stem supports all its branches . 732. It is , however , no just reproach to the current sciences , that they have not always ob- served a due boundary , or taken a right ...
... ground , draws the whole nourishment of the root , and by a single stem supports all its branches . 732. It is , however , no just reproach to the current sciences , that they have not always ob- served a due boundary , or taken a right ...
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... ground , owing to the want of proper and suf- ficient materials , has brought discredit upon their more authentic philosophy ; nor have the attempts of the moderns to generalize our physical ex- perience , and bring it within the ...
... ground , owing to the want of proper and suf- ficient materials , has brought discredit upon their more authentic philosophy ; nor have the attempts of the moderns to generalize our physical ex- perience , and bring it within the ...
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... ground : hence , all we can fairly hope or require is some progress towards the perfect reconcilement of reason with experience therein , while every attempt that sup- plies a new light may be hailed as the harbinger of improvement ...
... ground : hence , all we can fairly hope or require is some progress towards the perfect reconcilement of reason with experience therein , while every attempt that sup- plies a new light may be hailed as the harbinger of improvement ...
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... particulars of physical nature , had it consisted with our design to have framed any thing more than a brief outline of this department of natural science . CHAPTER I. OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES . 755. THE ground THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES . 19.
... particulars of physical nature , had it consisted with our design to have framed any thing more than a brief outline of this department of natural science . CHAPTER I. OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES . 755. THE ground THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES . 19.
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... ground and relations of Physics , as a branch of Physiology and of universal science , having been already pointed out and distinguished ; it belongs , in the next place , to the present Out- line to investigate the natural species of ...
... ground and relations of Physics , as a branch of Physiology and of universal science , having been already pointed out and distinguished ; it belongs , in the next place , to the present Out- line to investigate the natural species of ...
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Page 428 - Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face; That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art ; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
Page 284 - Length of days is in her right hand ; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
Page 372 - Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are? Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who hath given understanding to the heart?
Page 366 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 363 - Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made, thou art God from everlasting, and world without end.
Page 473 - ... universal system : That it is not strange that we should not be able to discover perfection and order in every instance, because, in an infinity of things mutually relative, a mind which sees not infinitely, can see nothing fully. This doctrine was inculcated by Plato and the Stoics, but more amply and particularly by the later Platonists, and by Antoninus and Simplicius.
Page 456 - Let there be light, said God ; And forthwith light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the deep ; and from her native east To journey through the...
Page 371 - I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. But there is a spirit in man : and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
Page 323 - God as inadequately and variously understood : — hence the innumerable objects of adoration, — the various denominations under which the Deity has been worshipped in different ages and countries, — and the variety of religious opinions. §. 69. The highest and most comprehensive of all conceptions to which the mind of man can be elevated by the powers of understanding and philosophy, is the totality of things internal and external, — that in which all is united, or wherein all things exist,...
Page 190 - With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish, and doubt, and fear, and sorrow, and pain From mortal or immortal minds.