A Dissertation on the Philosophy of Aristotle: In Four Books ...author ... By Robert Wilks, 1812 - 577 páginas |
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... circular lines ; in order that he may , at the same time , indicate its middle nature , between an essence indivisible , and that which is divi- sible , about bodies ; just as a line , also , is the middle of a point , and of solids ...
... circular lines ; in order that he may , at the same time , indicate its middle nature , between an essence indivisible , and that which is divi- sible , about bodies ; just as a line , also , is the middle of a point , and of solids ...
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... circular motion . It is evident therefore , that the last of the pyramids which are with the circumambient ( i . e . which are in contact with the sphere of the moon , this being the sphere in which fire is proximately contained ) ...
... circular motion . It is evident therefore , that the last of the pyramids which are with the circumambient ( i . e . which are in contact with the sphere of the moon , this being the sphere in which fire is proximately contained ) ...
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... circular enclosure which now consists of the stars , the sun and the moon , the air and the æther , which are separated from each other . It likewise , separated the dense from the rare , the hot from the cold , the lucid from the dark ...
... circular enclosure which now consists of the stars , the sun and the moon , the air and the æther , which are separated from each other . It likewise , separated the dense from the rare , the hot from the cold , the lucid from the dark ...
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... circular motion which is toward us , appear to be especially common to all things , this above , and that beneath ; because the one always abides ; and the extremity of the circle also abides , possessing a sameness of subsistence ...
... circular motion which is toward us , appear to be especially common to all things , this above , and that beneath ; because the one always abides ; and the extremity of the circle also abides , possessing a sameness of subsistence ...
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... circular motion with reference to us , will be the upward place ; for things which are moved upward , being moved as far as to that extremity , are comprehended by and according to it . And that is the boundary of the comprehending ...
... circular motion with reference to us , will be the upward place ; for things which are moved upward , being moved as far as to that extremity , are comprehended by and according to it . And that is the boundary of the comprehending ...
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Página 485 - Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Página 526 - And these things being rightly dispatched, does it not appear from phenomena, that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite space, as it were, in his sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself...
Página 525 - Is not the sensory of animals that place to which the sensitive substance is present and into which the sensible species of things are carried through the nerves and brain, that there they may be perceived by their immediate presence to that substance?
Página 559 - Prevailing studies are of no small consequence to a state, the religion, manners, and civil government, of a country, ever taking some bias from its philosophy, which affects not only the minds of its professors and students, but also the opinions of all the better sort, and the practice of the whole people, remotely and consequentially indeed, though not inconsiderably.
Página 536 - Secondly, the other fountain from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas is the perception of the operations of our own mind within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got: which operations when the soul comes to reflect on and consider do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas, which could not be had from things without; and such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing...
Página 524 - In bodies we see only their figures and colours, we hear only the sounds, we touch only their outward surfaces, we smell only the smells and taste the savours ; but their inward substances are not to be known, either by our senses or by any reflex act of our minds. Much less then have we any idea of the substance of God.
Página 524 - Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and everywhere, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places, could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being necessarily existing.
Página 523 - Whence also He is all similar, all eye, all ear, all brain, all arm, all power to perceive, to understand, and to act ; but in a manner not at all human, in a manner not at all corporeal, in a manner utterly unknown to us.
Página 500 - ... exemplar of all, from whence by different degrees are derived the inferior classes of life: first the rational, then the sensitive, after that the vegetal; but so as in the rational animal there is still somewhat intellectual, again, in the sensitive there is somewhat rational, and in the vegetal somewhat sensitive, and lastly, in mixed bodies, as metals and minerals, somewhat of vegetation. By which means the whole is thought to be more perfectly connected. Which doctrine implies that all the...
Página 503 - Who soothes to dear delight his anxious mind; Successless all her soft caresses prove To banish from his breast his country's love; To see the smoke from his...