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... thing can more effectually take us off from the foolish admiration of what is immediately before our eyes , and help us to a jufter eftimate both of prefent Men , and prefent Litera- ture . ' Tis perhaps too much the cafe with the ...
... thing can more effectually take us off from the foolish admiration of what is immediately before our eyes , and help us to a jufter eftimate both of prefent Men , and prefent Litera- ture . ' Tis perhaps too much the cafe with the ...
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... THINGS , concerning which the Speaker propofes to perfuade his Hearers : With respect to the first Relation , that which regards the HEARERS , are employed Poetry and Rhetoric . Thus it becomes the business of these two , to select the ...
... THINGS , concerning which the Speaker propofes to perfuade his Hearers : With respect to the first Relation , that which regards the HEARERS , are employed Poetry and Rhetoric . Thus it becomes the business of these two , to select the ...
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... things , which appear trivial and low ; let him look upon the effects , to which those things contribute , then from the Dignity of the Confequences , let him honour the Principles . THE following Story may not impro- perly be here ...
... things , which appear trivial and low ; let him look upon the effects , to which those things contribute , then from the Dignity of the Confequences , let him honour the Principles . THE following Story may not impro- perly be here ...
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... things , which are first to Na- Ch . II . ture , are not first to Man . Nature begins from Causes , and thence defcends to Effects : Human Perceptions first open upon Effects , and thence by flow degrees afcend to Causes . Often had ...
... things , which are first to Na- Ch . II . ture , are not first to Man . Nature begins from Causes , and thence defcends to Effects : Human Perceptions first open upon Effects , and thence by flow degrees afcend to Causes . Often had ...
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... Things , Metaph . 1. 2. c . I. See alfo 1. 7. c . 4. and Ethic . Nicom . 1. I. c . 4. Ammonius , reasoning in the fame way , fays very pertinently to the Subject of this Treatife'Αγαπητὸν τῆ ἀνθρω πίνῃ φύσει , ἐκ τῶν ἀτελεστέρων καὶ ...
... Things , Metaph . 1. 2. c . I. See alfo 1. 7. c . 4. and Ethic . Nicom . 1. I. c . 4. Ammonius , reasoning in the fame way , fays very pertinently to the Subject of this Treatife'Αγαπητὸν τῆ ἀνθρω πίνῃ φύσει , ἐκ τῶν ἀτελεστέρων καὶ ...
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Adjectives Adverbs Affertion affume alfo alſo anſwer antient Arift Article Attributes becauſe C.VIII Cafe called Caufe Cauſe Ch.III Ch.IV Ch.XI Cicero co-incide Conjunctions definite denote diftinction elſe enim exift exiſtence exprefs faid fame farther feems fhall fhould fignificant fimple firft firſt fome fomething Form fpeaking ftill fuch fuppofe Grammarians Greek hence Ideas infinite inftances Intenfion itſelf laft Language Latin Mode moſt muſt Name Nature Noun Number obferved Oppofition Paft Participles paſt Perfon Philofopher Plato poffible Pofitive prefent Prepofitions Prifcian Pronoun quæ quod racter reaſon reſpect ſay Scaliger Senfe Sentences ſhall ſome ſpeak Species Speech Subftantive Subject ſuch Tenfes thefe themſelves Theodore Gaza theſe things thofe thoſe tion tive univerfal uſed Verbs whofe Words ἂν γὰρ δὲ εἶναι ἐκ ἐν ἐπὶ καὶ καὶ τὸ κατὰ μὲν μὴ ὅτι πρὸς τὰ τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τῷ τῶν ὡς
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Page 53 - 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.
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Page 46 - But opposite in levell'd west was set His mirror, with full face borrowing her light From him, for other light she needed none In that aspect, and still that distance keeps Till night...
Page 346 - 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 409 - A nation engaged in wars and commotions, some foreign, some domestic, which for seven hundred years wholly engrossed their thoughts. Hence, therefore, their language became, like their ideas, copious in all terms expressive of things political, and well adapted to the purposes both of history and popular eloquence. But what was their philosophy...
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Page 267 - 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.
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Page 421 - The language in the mean time, in which he and Plato wrote, appears to suit so 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 so elegant in any other manner.
Page 406 - Italy ; our phrases in cookery and war, that we learnt these from the French ; and our phrases in navigation, that we were taught by the Flemings and Low Dutch.