These records of wars, intrigues, factions, and revolutions are so many collections of experiments, by which the politician or moral philosopher fixes the principles of his science, in the same manner as the physician or natural philosopher becomes acquainted... Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects - Page 87by David Hume - 1809Full view - About this book
| David Hume - Commerce - 1758 - 568 pages
...philofopher fixes the principles of his fciencc -, in the fame manner as the phyfician or natural philofopher becomes acquainted with the nature of plants, minerals,...which he forms concerning them. Nor are the earth, v/ater, and other elements, examined by ARISTOTLE, _ and HIPPOCRATES, more like to thofe, which at... | |
| David Hume - 1768 - 540 pages
...natural philofopher becomes acquainted with the nature of plants, minerals, and other external objedts, by the experiments, which he forms concerning them....examined by ARISTOTLE, and HIPPOCRATES, more like to thofe, which at prefent lie under our obfervation, than the men, described by POLYBIUS andTA* ciTtrs,... | |
| David Hume - Ethics, Modern - 1772 - 556 pages
...philofopher fixes the principles of his fcience ; in the fame manner as the phyfician or natural philofopher becomes acquainted with the nature of plants, minerals,...examined by ARISTOTLE, and HIPPOCRATES, more like to thofe, which at prefent lie under our obfervation, than the men, defcribed by POLYBIUS and TACITUS,... | |
| David Hume - 1788 - 600 pages
...philofopher becomes acquainted with the nature of plants, minerals, and other external objeds, by toy the experiments which he forms concerning them. Nor...examined by ARISTOTLE and HIPPOCRATES, more like to thofe which at preient lie under our obfervation, than to the men defcribed by POLYBIUS and TACITUS,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1811 - 622 pages
...of nit science, in the same manner as the natural philosopher becomes acquainted with the nature of minerals, and other external objects, by the experiments, which he forms concerning them.'• It will still be necessary before we close these hasty remarks, to make one or two observations, as... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1820 - 594 pages
...intrigues, factions, and revolutions,' says Mr. Hume, ' are so many collections of experiments, by which the moral philosopher fixes the principles of his science, in the same manner as the natural philosopher becomes acquainted with the nature of minerals, and other external objects, by... | |
| David Hume - Natural theology - 1825 - 526 pages
...human action and behaviour. These records of wars, intrigues, factions, and revolutions, are so many collections of experiments, by which the politician...he forms concerning them. Nor are the earth, water, ami other elements, examined by Aristotle and Hippocrates, more like to those which at present lie... | |
| David Hume - 1825 - 526 pages
...human action and behaviour. These records of wars, intrigues, factions, and revolutions, are so many collections of experiments, by which the politician...philosopher fixes the principles of his science ; in the stone manner as the physician or natural philosopher becomes acquainted with the nature of plants,... | |
| Maurice Cross - 1835 - 520 pages
...intrigues, factions, and revolutions," says Mr. Hume, " are so many collections of experiments, by which the moral philosopher fixes the principles of his science ,-^in the same manner as the natural philosopher becomes acquainted with the nature of minerals, and other external objects, by... | |
| Maurice Cross - 1835 - 920 pages
...his science ;~Лп Ihe same manner as Ihe natural philosopher becomes acquainted wilh the nature of minerals, and other external objects, by the experiments which he forms concerning Ihem." * It will still be necessary, before we close these hasty remarks, to make one or two observations... | |
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