 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1776 - 410 pàgines
...the difference of fpecies, appears, in many inftances, fmall ; and would probably appear ftill lefs, if we had the means of knowing their motives, as •we have of obferving their actions. The connection of all animal, and, by confequence, of human, with vegetable... | |
 | 1922 - 852 pàgines
...philosophical mentor. Bolingbroke was attempting, on the one hand, to show that "man is connected by his nature . . . with the whole tribe of animals, and...their motives, as we have of observing their actions. " 8 On the other hand, he is replying to those theologians who loved to dilate upon the miseries of... | |
 | Arthur O. Lovejoy - 1936 - 404 pàgines
...different kinds, are communicated in some proportion or other to the whole race of animals. . . ." Man is connected by his nature, and therefore, by...knowing their motives, as we have of observing their actions.80 Pope, when he translated these reflections into verse, heightened the emphasis on the more... | |
 | Peter J. Tamburro - 2016 - 598 pàgines
...brute sharper than ever before. The distance between them was but measurable. In Addison's words : Man is connected by his nature, and therefore by the...knowing their motives, as we have of observing their actions.24 If, in his anatomy of the chimpanzee, Tyson found no cause to support the ancient mythology... | |
 | 236 pàgines
...so closely with some of them, that the distance between his intellectual faculties and theirs . . . appears, in many instances, small, and would probably...their motives, as we have of observing their actions." e Secondly, this humbling thought had another corollary : it roused a high pitch of interest in those... | |
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Bolingbroke was attempting, on the one hand, to show that " man is connected by his nature . . . with the whole tribe of animals, and so closely with some of them, that the distance between his intellectual faculties and theirs, which constitutes as really,... 