fpeculative

To them rhetoric is not fo much a pra6lical art as a fpeculative fcience; and the fame inftru6lions which affift. others in compofing, will affift them in difcern - ing and relilhing, the beauties of compofition.

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres 1812

Dr.N. did not extend his plan in the manner which might have fuited thai; philoibphical preceptor, whe, not being himfelf ihut up within an/endofure, might think ir his duty to lay open to his pupil, without referve, the whole field of fpeculative inquiry.

The Monthly Review 1796

Ab to intelledual perfection, it muft be prac-* tical as well as fpeculative, for the condudl of affairs.

Sketch of democracy 1796

A very confiderable degree of intelleftual perfedion, both fpeculative and praftical, is altogether compatible with moral imperfec - tion.

Sketch of democracy 1796

A fmner dead in trefpailes and fms may be a living treafu - ry of knowledge, an univerfal fcholar, a profound philofopher, and even a great divhie, as far as mere fpeculative knovv ledge can render him Inch; nay, he is capable of many fenfations and im - prelhons from religious objects, and of performing all the ex - ternal duties of religion.

Sermons on important subjects, by the late Reverend and pious Samuel Davies, A.M., sometime President of the College in New-Jersey ... to which are now added, three occasional sermons ... memoirs and character of the author, and two sermons on occasion of his death, by the Rev. Drs. Gibbons and Finley 1794

Hobbes, Bayle, and riume, prove that it is poffible for fpeculative Atheifts to be men of pe - culiar innocence of manners, and integrity of condudl.

Political Correspondence; Or, Letters to a Country Gentleman, Retired from Parliament: On the ... 1793

- * When I fay that a fpeculative Atheift may be a good man,

Political Correspondence; Or, Letters to a Country Gentleman, Retired from Parliament: On the ... 1793

He endeavoured to bring men back from the wild and fpeculative notions which the mafters were teaching, the fcholars liftened with filent attention; that they were not only forbidden to fpeak, but even to cough or fpit -, that all the fcholars eat in common; that their meals were preceded by bathings andpurifications; and that before the firfl: meal they were obliged to render an account how the morning had been employed.

Sketches chiefly relating to the history, religion, learning, and manners, of the Hindoos. With a concise account of the present state of the native powers of Hindostan Quintin 1792

THERE IS perhaps no fubjed which has given rife to more fpeculative inquiry, than the formation of the earth, and the origin of the human race: ftill the moft ingenious fyftems are, in reality, but philofophical romances; they have never rifen above probable conjedure, unfubftantiated by proof.

Sketches chiefly relating to the history, religion, learning, and manners, of the Hindoos. With a concise account of the present state of the native powers of Hindostan Quintin 1792

None but the fpeculative enthufiaft will ever brand the facred name of Peter I. nor of any Prince who purfues meafures fimi - lar to his, with the name of Tyrant. —

Travels into Norway, Denmark, and Russia, in the years 1788, 1789, 1790, and 1791 1792