The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions
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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1864. Excerpt: ... In an age of colloquial idioms, when to write in a loose slang hhd become a mark of loyalty, this is the only L'Estrange vulgarism I have met with in Leighton. Ib. Exhortation to the Students, p. 252. Study to acquire...
MoreBook may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1864. Excerpt: ... In an age of colloquial idioms, when to write in a loose slang hhd become a mark of loyalty, this is the only L'Estrange vulgarism I have met with in Leighton. Ib. Exhortation to the Students, p. 252. Study to acquire such a philosophy as is not barren and babbling, but aolid and true; not such a one as floats upon the surface of endless verbal controversies, but one that enters into the nature of things: for he spoke good sense that said, " The philosophy of the Greeks was a mere jargon, and noise of words." If so, then so is all philosophy : for what system is there, the elements and outlines of which are not to be found in the Greek schools 1 Here Leighton followed too incautiously the Fathers. NOTES ON SHERLOCK'S VINDICATION OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY* Sect. i. p. 3. Some new philosophers will tell you that the notion of a spirit or an immaterial substance is a contradiction; for by substance they understand nothing but matter, and then an immaterial substance is immaterial matter, that is, matter and no matter, which is a contradiction; but yet this does not prove an immaterial substance to be a contradiction, unless they could first prove that there is no substance but matter; and that they can not conceive any other substance but matter, does not prove that there is no other. Certainly not: but if not only they, but Dr. Sherlock himself and all mankind, are incapable of attaching any sense to the term substance, but that of matter,--then for us it would be a contradiction or a groundless assertion. Thus : By ' substance' I do not mean the only notion we can attach to the word ; but a somewhat, I know not what, may, for aught I know, not be contradictory to spirit! "Why should we use the equivocal word, ' substance' (after all but an ens logicum), instead of the definite t...
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