Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform: Chiefly from the Edinburgh Review; Cor., Vindicated, Enl., in Notes and Appendices |
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Page 122
... academical renown , nor any en- lightened persuasion of its importance , that preserved to logic a place among the subjects of academical tuition , when the kin- dred branches of philosophy , with other statutory studies , were dropt ...
... academical renown , nor any en- lightened persuasion of its importance , that preserved to logic a place among the subjects of academical tuition , when the kin- dred branches of philosophy , with other statutory studies , were dropt ...
Page 123
... academical use , which supposed any reach of thought , or an original ac- quaintance with the Organon . The compendium of Sanderson stood its ground for a season , when the more elaborate treatises ( erst in academical use ) of ...
... academical use , which supposed any reach of thought , or an original ac- quaintance with the Organon . The compendium of Sanderson stood its ground for a season , when the more elaborate treatises ( erst in academical use ) of ...
Page 125
... academical system have not proved beneficial to this study : perhaps , indeed , the reverse . Since the institution of honours , -since the re - introduction , how- ever limited , of a real examination for the first degree in arts , a ...
... academical system have not proved beneficial to this study : perhaps , indeed , the reverse . Since the institution of honours , -since the re - introduction , how- ever limited , of a real examination for the first degree in arts , a ...
Page 208
... academical youth hailed the first lecturers on ancient literature in the Universities , as , messengers from Heaven , " + the academical veterans persecuted aut Parva Logicalia sub brachio . Et si fuerunt Grammatici , tunc portabant ...
... academical youth hailed the first lecturers on ancient literature in the Universities , as , messengers from Heaven , " + the academical veterans persecuted aut Parva Logicalia sub brachio . Et si fuerunt Grammatici , tunc portabant ...
Page 319
... academical studies that the higher Algebra was not yet invented , [ ? ] and that the study of philosophy [ i . e . mathematics and physics ] in general was not hitherto pushed so far as either to engross or to exhaust the understand ...
... academical studies that the higher Algebra was not yet invented , [ ? ] and that the study of philosophy [ i . e . mathematics and physics ] in general was not hitherto pushed so far as either to engross or to exhaust the understand ...
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Page 308 - ... with their correlatives freedom of choice and responsibility — man being all this, it is at once obvious that the principal part of his being is his mental power. In Nature there is nothing great but Man, In Man there is nothing great but Mind.
Page 14 - As the conditionally limited (which we may briefly call the conditioned) is thus the only possible object of knowledge and of positive thought — thought necessarily supposes conditions. To think is to condition ; and conditional limitation is the fundamental law of the possibility of thought.