 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 422 pages
...claim a distinguished rank among those preparatory disciplines, which . another writer of equal talents has happily compared to " the crops which are raised,...but to be ploughed in as a dressing to the land." * SECTION III. Conclusion of the Narrative. THE three works to which the foregoing remarks refer, together... | |
 | William Mills - Ethics - 1830 - 58 pages
...any direct consequences, they have been b Mad. de Stael, torn. IV. chap. 1. de PAllemagne. 15 well compared " to the crops which are " raised, not for...the sake of the harvest, but " to be ploughed in as dressing to the « land." Having made these few observations on the advantages to be derived from the... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 520 pages
...i hr those preparatory disciplines, which another writer of equal talents has happily compared to ' crops which are raised, not for the sake of the harvest, but to be ploughed in an a dressing to land.'"— P. 166, 107. In following out his observations on the scope and spirit... | |
 | Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart - Free will and determinism - 1843 - 632 pages
...claim a distinguished rank among those preparatory disciplines which another writer of no less eminence has happily compared to " the crops which are raised,...harvest, but to be ploughed in as a dressing to the land."f SECTION III. CONCLUSION OF THE NARRATIVE. THE three works to which the foregoing remarks refer,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Christian life - 1845 - 338 pages
...its practical applications, may claim a distinguished rank among those preparatory disciplines which Berkeley has happily compared to " the crops which...but to be ploughed in as a dressing to the land." This science, in fact, teaches man to know himself, and to improve, direct, and exert his intellectual... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 692 pages
...claim a distinguished rank among those preparatory dis ciplincs, which another writer of equal talents has happily compared to ' the crops which are raised,...but to be ploughed in as a dressing to the land."" — p. 166, 167. In following out his observations on the scope and spirit of Dr. Reid's philosophy,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 682 pages
...claim a distinguished rank among those preparatory disciplines, which another writer of equal talents has happily compared to ' the crops which are raised,...harvest, but to be ploughed in as a dressing to the laud.•" — p. 166, 167. In following out his observations on the scope and spirit of Dr. Reid's... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1846 - 1080 pages
...a distinguished rank among those preparatory disciplines which another writer, of no less eminence, has happily compared to " the crops which are raised, not for the sake of the harrest, but to be ploughed in aa a dressing to the land."-f SECTION HI. COKO.CSIOX OF THE NARRATIVE.... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 pages
...claim a distinguished rank among those preparatory disciplines, which another writer of equal talents has happily compared to "the crops which are raised, not for the value of the harvest, but to be ploughed in as a dressing to the land." — Dugald Stewart's Life of... | |
 | Alonzo Benjamin Palmer, Edmund Andrews, Zina Pitcher - Medicine - 1854 - 592 pages
...Bishop Barclay, that it is of the number of those preparatory studios, which may be compared with crops, raised not for the sake, of the harvest, but to be ploughed in as a dressing to the land. Botany, zoology, and meteorology are so obviously the allies of tha physician, that no argument seems... | |
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In this respect, the philosophy of the mind (abstracting entirely from that pre-eminence which belongs to it in consequence of its practical applications) may claim a distinguished rank among those preparatory disciplines which another writer of no less... 
