Entries Tagged as 'Enlightenment'

May 30, 2007

Item of the Day: Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind (1793)

Full Title: Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind. By Dugald Stewart. Philadelphia: Printed by William Young, Bookseller, No. 52, Second-Street, the Corner of Chestnut-Street, M, DCC, XCIII.
INTRODUCTION.
PART FIRST.
Of the Nature and Object of the Philosophy of the Human Mind.
 
THE prejudice which is commonly entertained against metaphysical speculations seems to arise chiefly from two [...]

May 29, 2007

Item of the Day: An Inquiry into the Human Mind, on the Principles of Common Sense (1817)

Full Title: An Inquiry into the Human Mind, on the Principles of Common Sense. By Thomas Reid. Glasgow: Printed by W. Falconer, and sold by the booksellers, 1817.
[First published 1764].
TO
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
JAMES, EARL OF FINDLATER AND SEAFIELD
CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OLD ABERDEEN
My Lord,
Though I apprehend that there are things new and of some importance, [...]

May 23, 2007

Item of the Day: The Adventurer (1770)

Full Title:  The ADVENTURER. By John Hawkesworth. Volume the Fourth.  New Edition.  London:  Printed for W. Strahan, J. and F. Rivington, etc.  MDCCLXX.
Tuesday, November 27, 1753.
The evils inseparably annexed to the present condition of man, are so numerous and afflictive, that it has been, from age to age, the task of some to bewail, and of others to [...]

April 13, 2007

Item of the Day: An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times (1758)

Full Title: An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times. By John Brown. Seventh Edition. London, Printed;  Boston, New-England: Re-printed and sold by Green and Russell, at their Printing-Office in Queen-Street, MDCCLVIII.
PART I.
A Delineation of the Ruling Manners and Principles.
 SECT. I.
THE DESIGN.
SUPERFICIAL, though zealous, Observers, think they see the Source of all our [...]