An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and ScepticismEdward and Charles Dilly; and William Creech, Edinburgh, 1778 - 472 pages |
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abfurd Æneid afferted againſt alſo anſwer argument axiom becauſe believe cafe caufe cauſe common fenfe conclufion confequence confiftent confutation demonftration difpute diftinction diſcover doctrine doubt Effay eſtabliſh evidence exift exiſtence experience faculties faid falfe fallacious fame fatisfied fceptical fcepticiſm fcience feems felf-evident fenfation fenfible fenſe fentiments fhall fhould firſt fome fometimes foul fpirit free agency fubject fuch fufficient fuppofe fyftem genius himſelf human nature HUME HUME's idea impoffible impreffion inftances inftinctive intuitive inveſtigation itſelf leaſt lefs MALEBRANCHE mankind metaphyfical mind miſtake moft moral moſt muft muſt myſelf neceffary neceffity never notions notwithſtanding obfervation object ourſelves perceive perception perfon philofophers pleaſe poffible prefent principles proof propofition prove puniſhment purpoſe Pyrrho queſtion reafon reſpect rience ſay ſeems ſenſe ſhall ſome ſpeak ſuch ſuppoſe teftimony thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tion Treatife of Human true truth underſtanding univerfal uſe virtue words
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Page 69 - how here: •' Not of myfelf; by fome great Maker then, " In goodnefs and in power pre-eminent. " Tell me, how I may know him, how adore, *' From whom I have, that thus I move and live, " And feel that I am happier than I know.
Page 306 - the impreffion of the one to form a more " lively idea of the other *." There are now in my view two contiguous houfes, one of which was built laft fummer, and the other two years ago. By feeing them
Page 167 - they appear fo cold, fo /trained, and fo ridiculous, that I " cannot find in my heart to enter into them any further. Here *• then I find myfelf abfolutely and neceflarily determined to *
Page 307 - of the one to form a more lively "idea of the other. So that, according to our author's definition, the one houfe is the caufe, and the other the effect!—Again, day and night have always been contiguous and
Page 306 - deduced from his theory, and which he fays is the beft that he can give. " A caufe is an object precedent *' and contiguous to another, and fo united " with it, that the idea of the one determines
Page 338 - it is fo abfurd, that not to be merry is impoffible; and fometimes fo impious, that not to be angry were unpardonable: but often it partakes fo much of both qualities, that one knows not with what temper of mind to -confider it: . •* To laugh, were want of goodnefs, and of grace; *' And to be grave, exceeds all power of face.
Page 69 - Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, " And, ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell,
Page 465 - the negroes, and in general all the other *' fpecies of men, (for there are four or five *' different kinds), to be naturally inferior " to the whites. There never was a
Page 259 - All I can allow him is, that he may be in " the right as well as I, and that we are
Page 34 - to fignify that power of the human mind by which we draw inferences, or by which we are convinced, that a relation belongs to two ideas, on. account of our having found, that thefe ideas bear certain relations to other ideas. In a word, it is that faculty which enables Us,