A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 3J. and H. L. Hunt, 1824 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 26
Page 19
... imagination . Nature says to them all , When you have seen colours for a certain time , imagination will represent the bodies to which these DISTANCE . 19.
... imagination . Nature says to them all , When you have seen colours for a certain time , imagination will represent the bodies to which these DISTANCE . 19.
Page 20
Voltaire. time , imagination will represent the bodies to which these colours appear attached to all alike . This prompt and summary judgment once attained , will be of use to you during your life ; for if to estimate the distances ...
Voltaire. time , imagination will represent the bodies to which these colours appear attached to all alike . This prompt and summary judgment once attained , will be of use to you during your life ; for if to estimate the distances ...
Page 44
... imagination therefore often conceives and brings forth easily . It is not thus with didactic works ; which require art to make them appear easy . For example , there is much less ease than profundity in Pope's Essay on Man . Bad works ...
... imagination therefore often conceives and brings forth easily . It is not thus with didactic works ; which require art to make them appear easy . For example , there is much less ease than profundity in Pope's Essay on Man . Bad works ...
Page 61
... imagination suddenly . Thus a cap- tain of the first caliphs , seeing the mussulmen fly from the field of battle , cried out : " Where are you running to ? your enemies are not there . " This speech has been given to many captains : it ...
... imagination suddenly . Thus a cap- tain of the first caliphs , seeing the mussulmen fly from the field of battle , cried out : " Where are you running to ? your enemies are not there . " This speech has been given to many captains : it ...
Page 87
... imagination of the na- tions under subjection to the Roman empire , amidst the horrors of the civil wars between Cæsar and Pom- pey . Virgil , in his Georgics ( book i . v . 468 ) , alludes to the general apprehension which filled the ...
... imagination of the na- tions under subjection to the Roman empire , amidst the horrors of the civil wars between Cæsar and Pom- pey . Virgil , in his Georgics ( book i . v . 468 ) , alludes to the general apprehension which filled the ...
Contents
3 | |
14 | |
20 | |
26 | |
31 | |
39 | |
48 | |
55 | |
234 | |
235 | |
241 | |
250 | |
254 | |
257 | |
260 | |
262 | |
65 | |
73 | |
83 | |
91 | |
182 | |
183 | |
185 | |
186 | |
187 | |
191 | |
193 | |
196 | |
197 | |
199 | |
205 | |
207 | |
214 | |
225 | |
227 | |
229 | |
230 | |
232 | |
233 | |
264 | |
265 | |
268 | |
270 | |
278 | |
299 | |
301 | |
304 | |
307 | |
313 | |
319 | |
322 | |
351 | |
356 | |
362 | |
365 | |
389 | |
390 | |
399 | |
400 | |
404 | |
406 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
according admit Æsop afterwards ancient animals antiquity appear Apulia astonishing beautiful believe bishop Cæsar CALCHAS called christian church Cicero court death dispute divine donation DONDINDAC DRUID earth Egypt Egyptians elegant eloquence emblem emperor England Enoch eternal Eusebius existence expression eyes fables faith father favour figure fire France French Gauls genius Gerar give glory gods gospel grace Greek heaven Herodotus Hesiod holy honour human hundred idea imagination incest Irenæus jansenists jesuit Jesus Christ Jews Julius Cæsar king labour language laws LOGOMACHOS Lord Louis XIV manner master mind nation nature necessary never opinion orator Ovid passage person philosophers Phlegon Plato poet pope possess present pretended priest prince reason received religion ridiculous Romans Rome sadducees Scythian sense serpent signifies soul sovereign speak species spirit Tertullian thee things thou tion truth verses virtue Voltaire word
Popular passages
Page 51 - But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
Page 280 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 47 - And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day...
Page 133 - Viselli : 105 est modus in rebus, sunt certi denique fines, quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum.
Page 89 - And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars ; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
Page 293 - And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men builded.
Page 311 - ... that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the sides.
Page 145 - Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Page 274 - The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.