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... use of their own understandings . He thinks nothing more abfurd than the common notion of in- ftruction , as if Science were to be pour- ed into the Mind , like water into a cif- tern , that paffively waits to receive all that comes ...
... use of their own understandings . He thinks nothing more abfurd than the common notion of in- ftruction , as if Science were to be pour- ed into the Mind , like water into a cif- tern , that paffively waits to receive all that comes ...
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... use the Word ) ' tis a Sentence precative or optative . WHAT then fhall we say ? Are Sen- tences to be quoted in this manner without ceafing , all differing from each other in their their ftamp and character ? Are they no Ch . 14 HERME S.
... use the Word ) ' tis a Sentence precative or optative . WHAT then fhall we say ? Are Sen- tences to be quoted in this manner without ceafing , all differing from each other in their their ftamp and character ? Are they no Ch . 14 HERME S.
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... use exercise ; and future fick- ness to those , who , being now healthy , are slothful . It is a variety of such observa- tions , all refpecting one fubject , which when systematized by just reasoning , and made habitual by due practice ...
... use exercise ; and future fick- ness to those , who , being now healthy , are slothful . It is a variety of such observa- tions , all refpecting one fubject , which when systematized by just reasoning , and made habitual by due practice ...
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... use of the Particle av , of which he was then treating , and which , as it denoted Potentiality or Contingence , would affort ( he fays ) with any of the paffing , extended , and incomplete Tenfes , but never with this PERFECTUM ...
... use of the Particle av , of which he was then treating , and which , as it denoted Potentiality or Contingence , would affort ( he fays ) with any of the paffing , extended , and incomplete Tenfes , but never with this PERFECTUM ...
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... no less than feven Auxiliars , viz . Do , Am , Have , Sball , Will , May , and Can ; which we use sometimes fingly , as when we fay , I am writ- ing , Their C.VIII . the SOUL and its AFFECTIONS . Peculiarities 148 HERME S.
... no less than feven Auxiliars , viz . Do , Am , Have , Sball , Will , May , and Can ; which we use sometimes fingly , as when we fay , I am writ- ing , Their C.VIII . the SOUL and its AFFECTIONS . Peculiarities 148 HERME S.
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Adjectives Adverbs Affertion affume alfo alſo anſwer antient Arift Ariftotle Article Attributes becauſe Boethius C.VIII Cafe called Caufe cauſe Cicero courſe denote diftinctions diſtinguiſhed effential elſe enim exift exiſtence exprefs Extenfion faid fame farther feems fignificant fimple firft firſt fome fomething Form ftill fuch fuppofe Greek hence himſelf Ideas infinite inftances itſelf laft Language laſt Latin leaſt Mode moſt muſt Nature Noun obferve paffage Paft paſt Perfon Philofophers Plato poffible Pofitive prefent Prepofitions Prifcian Pronoun quæ quod reaſon reft reſpect ſay Senfe Sentence ſhall ſhould ſome ſpeaking Species ſtill Subftantive Subject ſuch ſuppoſe Tenfes thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thro tion tive Treatife univerfal UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR uſe Verbs vero whofe Words ἂν γὰρ δὲ εἶναι εἰς ἐκ ἐν ἐπὶ καὶ καὶ τὸ κατὰ μὲν μὴ πρὸς τὰ τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τῷ τῶν ὡς
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Page 49 - Dire was the tossing, deep the groans : Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.
Page 338 - The sum of all is, that words are the symbols of ideas both general and particular ; yet of the general, primarily, essentially, and immediately ; of the particular, only secondarily, accidentally, and mediately.
Page 321 - The truth is, that every medium through which we exhibit any thing to another's contemplation, is either derived from natural attributes, and then it is an imitation; or else from accidents quite arbitrary, and then it is a symbol b.
Page 261 - All which instances, with many others of like kind, shew that the first words of men, like their first ideas, had an immediate reference to sensible objects, and that in after-days, when they began to discern with their intellect, they took those words which they found already made, and transferred them by metaphor to intellectual conceptions.
Page 97 - ... the end of one time and the beginning of another. Let us suppose, for example, the lines AB, B C. n AC I say, that the point B is the end of the line AB, and the beginning of the line B C. In the same manner let us suppose AB, BC to represent certain times, and let B be a now or instant.
Page 118 - God want praife : Millions of fpiritual creatures walk the earth Unfeen, both when we wake, and when we fleep.
Page 411 - Plato wrote, appears to fuit fo accurately with the Stile of both, that when we read either of the two, we cannot help thinking, that it is he alone, who has hit its' character, and that it could not have appeared fo elegant in any other manner.
Page 285 - Be the subject itself immediately lucrative or not, the nerves of reason are braced by the mere employ, and we become abler actors in the drama of life, whether our part be of the busier or of the sedater kind.
Page 257 - Accusatives, for both those places are already filled ; the Nominative, by the substance Sun ; the Accusative by the substance Earth. Not as Attributes to these last, or to any other thing : for, attributes by nature, they neither are nor can be made *. Here then we perceive the rise and use of Prepositions. By these we connect those substantives to sentences, which at the time are unable to coalesce of themselves. Let us assumo for instance a pair of these connectives, THRO' and WITH, -and mark...
Page 396 - Hence they talked of kings as gods ; and of themselves as the meanest and most abject reptiles. Nothing was either great or little in moderation, but every sentiment was heightened by incredible hyperbole. Thus, though they sometimes ascended into the great and magnificent, they as frequently degenerated into the tumid and bombast.