This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...imagination. Du reste, renversant, detruisant, foulant aux pieds tout ce que les hommes respectent, ils otent aux affliges la derniere consolation de leur misere, aux puissants et aux riches le seul frein de leurs passions; ils arrachent du fond des coeurs le remords du crime, l'espoir de la vertu, et ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ...imagination. Du reste, renversant, detruisant, foulant aux pieds tout ce que les hommes respectent, ils otent aux affliges la derniere consolation de leur misere, aux puissants et aux riches le seul frein de leurs passions; ils arrachent du fond des coeurs le remords du crime, l'espoir de la vertu, et se vantent encore d'etre les bienfaiteurs du genre humain. Jamais disent-ils, la verite n'est nuisible aux hommes. Je le crois comme eux; et c'est, a mon avis, une grande preuve que ce qu'ils enseignent n'est pas la verite. y. y. Roitsseau. A SIMILE. All that we know of nature or of existences may be compared to a tree which hath root, trunk, and branches. In this tree of knowledge perception is the root, common understanding is the trunk, and the sciences are the branches. Thomas Reid. RELATIVITY OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE. Omne quod cognoscitur, non secundum sui vim, sed secundum cognoscentium potius comprehenditur facultatem. Boetkius. THE ABSOLUTE. As the greyhound cannot outstrip his shadow, nor (by a more appropriate simile) the eagle outsoar the atmosphere in which he floats, and by which alone he may be supported, so the mind cannot transcend that sphere of limitation within and through which exclusively the possibility of thought is realized. Sir William Hamilton. HUMAN KNOWLEDGE. Deux poles de toute science humaine: la personne moi, d'ou tout part; la personne Dieu, oil tout aboutit. De Biran. Others' Thoughts. In learning what others have thought, it is well to keep in practice the power of thinking for one's-self: when an author has added to your knowledge, pause and consider if you can add nothing to his. Edward Bithve. PART III. Search not who spoke this or that: but mark what is...
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Book. VG. 16mo (just over 6" tall) in red leather, title on spine in gilt with five raised bands on spine. Light shelf and edgewear to boards, light rubbing to bottom corners, light general bumping and scratching to boards, noticeable sun discoloration to spine. Gilt to top edge of textblock, lightly burnished, other edges agetoned, fore edge is deckled. Marbled endpages. Pages have only light agetoning. 288 pp. + list of Macmillan Golden Treasury Series books. HAGAR CONSIGNMENT. Shelved Rockville (Sally's room). 1154740. Special Collections.
