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... observation , and are there- fore not perverted by that great source of error , the imperfection of our senses , or the limitations of our power of perception . When we entertain these ideas , or reason about them , the mind is closed ...
... observation , and are there- fore not perverted by that great source of error , the imperfection of our senses , or the limitations of our power of perception . When we entertain these ideas , or reason about them , the mind is closed ...
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... observations and experiments ; instead of demonstration , we have induction ; instead of the objects of in- quiry being ... observation has taken in all their outward qualities . The attractive power of the loadstone was known for ages ...
... observations and experiments ; instead of demonstration , we have induction ; instead of the objects of in- quiry being ... observation has taken in all their outward qualities . The attractive power of the loadstone was known for ages ...
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... observing particulars ; and secondly , because it was believed that the ancients had already exhausted the inquiry and completed the work , so that all truth might be ascertained , and all controversies terminated , by a right ...
... observing particulars ; and secondly , because it was believed that the ancients had already exhausted the inquiry and completed the work , so that all truth might be ascertained , and all controversies terminated , by a right ...
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... observations , or to acquire so many ideas ; and animals , being better armed and better clothed by nature than the human species , have fewer wants , and consequently fewer motives to stimulate or exercise their invention . Who can ...
... observations , or to acquire so many ideas ; and animals , being better armed and better clothed by nature than the human species , have fewer wants , and consequently fewer motives to stimulate or exercise their invention . Who can ...
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... observation , and , consequent- ly , that the reasonings of the geometer do not differ in kind from the inductions of the optician or the chemist . It is hardly neces- sary to say , that the common opinion of the scientific world lies ...
... observation , and , consequent- ly , that the reasonings of the geometer do not differ in kind from the inductions of the optician or the chemist . It is hardly neces- sary to say , that the common opinion of the scientific world lies ...
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Page 35 - THE heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.
Page 24 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate— Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 144 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 92 - Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains ; and of all that we behold From this green earth...
Page 377 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Page 136 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not Thee, marks not the mighty Hand That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres ; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
Page 371 - What nothing earthly gives or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, Is virtue's prize...
Page 137 - The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Page 164 - Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
Page 51 - In short, there are two principles which I cannot render consistent, nor is it in my power to renounce either of them, viz. that all our distinct perceptions are distinct existences, and that the mind never perceives any real connexion among distinct existences.